You may brag all you want to, now do it in the swamp.
You obviously have done things in the past. So have I. But The swamp is currently HUGE. IF you put just patriotism or ideology in the position like the dems, what to you get? Total incompetence.
How rare is a good patriotic leader now. How do you find leaders? Lots of drones. My experience is you don’t find many.
I have a few warriors in my life and they are RARE.
Trump looked for skill and patriotism as best he could. He did more than anyone else . But all you want to do is complain, and INSUNUATE you could have done it right.
“But all you want to do is complain, and INSUNUATE you could have done it right.”
I voted for Trump twice. I will vote for him again in 2024 if he is the nominee and if he runs third party I may vote for him if I perceive he is better than the candidates the two parties put forward. I was pleased with most of the things Trump tried to do. I just happen to believe in government he could be more successful if he had put better people in key jobs who were committed to his policies. I also have issues with his overt narcissism. Apparently you do not. I have never questioned his patriotism or his willingness to fight for his objectives.
What in the end did he accomplish? He certainly slowed the decline of the US and the imposition of the leftist tyranny of the entrenched bureaucracy which we saw under Clinton, Obama, and now Biden. He certainly fought the leftist tyranny more than either Bush, McCain, Romney, or McConnell and Ryan. While he may have slowed the momentum, he did not stop it. In Biden’s first few days in office Biden countermanded most of Trump’s key accomplishments, stopping the Keystone Pipeline and the push for energy independence, ending construction of the border wall, and reinstating most of the regulations Trump had rescinded. Biden also weaponized Trump’s vaccine, using the power of the federal government to browbeat millions of Americans into taking a medical treatment with zero studies as to the long term effects. Given the number of unexplained sudden deaths the nation is currently experiencing, it may be Trump’s vaccine will go down in history as a tragic mistake.
Trump was a warrior but he ultimately failed to roll back the tyranny of the leftist state, much less make American great again. My question is, if he gets another term how will he win? His election battle plan worked in 2016, it failed in 2020. What is the plan for 2024? If it is more of the same, his enemies have already proven they can defeat him. The RINO’s will still dominate the GOP caucus in the Senate and Trump will have to deal with them in making appointments to key positions in his administration.
As to insinuating I could have done it right, I never did so. I am under no illusion I could accomplish more than what Trump tried to accomplish, particularly given the opposition he faced from his own party in Congress. Without the support of Congress, any president is severely handicapped in office. The fact I choose not to run for office does not preclude me as an American citizen for holding an opinion about government or our leaders. I perceive Biden to be one of the worst presidents in our history. In your world where I’m not allowed to have some reasoned negative opinions of Trump am I also not allowed to think negatively about Biden? Or is your position your fellow citizens can only hold opinions you agree with? If so you are not a believer in personal freedom and liberty.
I am not complaining about Trump, I am merely suggesting he needs to find, vet and put in place more people committed to his program if he is going to have a chance to win against the squishy RINO’s in Congress, the fully committed anti-Trump Democrats, and the entrenched unaccountable government bureaucracy. Obama was very adept at installing social justice warriors throughout the bureaucracy to be hidden land mines for the next administration. One of Obama’s last acts was to turn many appointed senior bureaucratic positions into regular civil service jobs, thereby ensuring his people would be in place permanently to sabotage any Republican administration. To counteract this entrenched social justice army, any conservative administration is going to need to put MAGA warriors in place to battle everyday. Trump, as an army of one, cannot fight by himself thousands of committed obstructor scattered throughout the bureaucracy and unable to be fired due to civil service laws.
Like you I have been dismayed by the absence of “warriors” willing to actually fight against the left since Ronald Reagan. The Democrat establishment is filled with warriors. The Republican establishment is filled with servants for the Republican donor base who will quickly compromise principles for expedience or to avoid being portrayed as racist and offensive. Mitt Romney for example is not a warrior and he went down to defeat because he would not even try to fight for the job he ostensibly wanted.
You may or may not be aware but each of the two party’s presidential candidates is provided a presidential transition fund so a staff can work to put an administration in place. The concept is that the day after election day, the winner will have the key appointed players identified, vetted, and ready to go before the Senate for confirmation and be in place on inauguration day. The Trump campaign was given $6 million by the General Services Administration to fund this advance transition work to ensure smooth continuity of government.
Donald Trump appointed Chris Christie to be his transition head. Appointing Christie was his decision, he could have appointed anyone he wished. There was no approval process for this appointment. You may remember that the day after election Trump began scrambling to identify candidates and interview them. Chris Christie did not do the job he was selected to perform and apparently Donald Trump did not check in with Christie during the campaign so he was not aware Christie had failed to perform. The failure to spend time attending to the transition was a huge management failure on Trump’s part. As a result, instead of having an administration ready to go on inauguration day, he had no choice but to keep Obama holdovers in place for months afterward. Those Obama holdovers slowed down the implementation of his policies, costing him the momentum most presidents realize during their honeymoon.
Trump fired Christie as transition head within days of winning the election but the damage was done. Proving the warrior can go to battle but if there aren’t soldiers with him, he isn’t going to make it very far.
Repeatedly during the 2016 election Trump promised to “drain the swamp.” He talked about all of the great business leaders he knew in the private sector who he would bring to Washington to change the bureaucracy. Instead Trump filled most of the jobs with inside the beltway careerists. Either Trump was making noise for effect during the campaign, or when he started calling the business leaders he bragged about, they said no.
If Trump is reelected I’d like to see him succeed in draining the swamp, securing the border, returning the nation to energy independence, ending US involvement in the Ukraine proxy war with Russia, and putting in place trade and tax policies that will ensure domestic manufacturing supply chains are rebuilt. In my opinion to do this he will have a huge battle against special interests, the federal bureaucracy, and key politicians in both parties. To have a chance of being successful he will need to fill the 2000 or so positions he appoints in the bureaucracy with committed warriors with outstanding management skills so they can deal with the entrenched bureaucrats on a daily basis. My impression is you believe being a patriotic leader is enough, the ability and quality of the followers doesn’t matter.
We shall see.