Posted on 04/04/2020 6:00:01 PM PDT by bitt
Trump’s prior initiatives eased the implementation of many of his most effective orders during this crisis.
President Donald Trump has courted endless controversies for promoting nonconventional policies and entertaining contrarian views. From the outset, he oddly seemed to have believed that having navigated the jungles of the Manhattan real estate market—crooked politicians, mercurial unions, neighborhood social activists, the green lobby, leery banks, cutthroat rivals—better prepared him for the job than did a 30-year tenure in the U.S. Senate.
Certainly, candidate and then President Trump’s strident distrust of China was annoying to the American establishment. The Left saw China in rosy terms as the “Other” that just did things like airports, high-speed rail, and solar panels better than did America’s establishment of geriatric white male has-beens. Many on the Right saw China as a cash cow that was going to take over anyway, so why not milk it before the deluge?
In sum, conventional Washington wisdom assumed that appeasing the commercial banditry of an ascendant China, at best might ensure that its new riches led to Westernized political liberalization, and at worst might at least earn them a pat on the head from China as it insidiously assumed its fated role as global hegemon.
Trump once enraged liberal sensibilities by issuing travel bans against countries in the Middle East, Iran, Nigeria, and North Korea as they could not be trusted to audit their own departing citizens. His notion that nations have clearly defined and enforced borders was antithetical to the new norms that open borders and sanctuary cities were part of the global village of the 21st century.
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VDH hits it out of the park again.
One of his best.
It’s hard to believe the media STILL hates the President.
Victor Davis Hanson.
The media has been brainwashed. Really.
The media also brainwashes. They have an agenda and it is not America first.
VDH is great!
“From the outset, he oddly seemed to have believed that having navigated the jungles of the Manhattan real estate market—crooked politicians, mercurial unions, neighborhood social activists, the green lobby, leery banks, cutthroat rivals—better prepared him for the job than did a 30-year tenure in the U.S. Senate.”
What made Trump a renegade Republican was his appeal to the deplorables, irredeemables, clingers, and dregs, whom the national media and elite had derided as toothless, smelly, fat, superstitious, bigoted, racist, superfluous, addicted, and toxic.
I wish I could write like that. Want a vivid indication of what they think of us? Count the number of American flags you saw at the Democrat debates - you won't get past zero. The message is clear: "We are better than you, more forward-thinking, moral, righteous, and on the Right Side Of History." These have taken a sharp look at the state of the country at the moment and have concluded that it's safe to come out now, that what is happening and will happen may now be safely blamed on the helmsman steering us out of it. These are not passengers, they are parasites.
The Left saw China in rosy terms as the “Other” that just did things like airports, high-speed rail, and solar panels better than did America’s establishment of geriatric white male has-beens.
And, incidentally, could not parrot loudly enough their admiration for the authoritarian regime that could "get things done". And who appear to have promoted as their own candidate a geriatric white male has-been whose back they can't seem to find the right soft spot to stab, not for want of trying. How pathetic their own strategy of impeach and resist has left them is seen in the latest attacks on Trump not doing enough despite them. It isn't a good look and it isn't fooling anyone.
Terrific article!
They media has an agenda, and it is the age for legal drinking.
“Candidates Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders saw an opening against their presumed 2020 opponent, and quickly sought to demagogue voters with “here-we-go-again” rhetoric that racist Trump is banning free travel of a marginalized people in his habitual “xenophobic” and “racist” fits.”
Dubya, Jeb! and Mitt agree with Biden and Bernie and wonder who could possibly disagree.
Absolutely.
Communism is like coronavirus. Those who are infected spread the disease.
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