Der Twerpsteen would much rather live under the benign rule of the musloid Hoosesane Obarfa
Posted on 02/14/2017 7:01:41 PM PST by upchuck
The nearly four weeks since President Donald Trump’s inauguration have been the most divisive period of American politics since the end of the Second World War. The sharp lines that everyone is drawing in the sand pose a serious threat to the United States. On the one side stand many conservatives and populists who are rejoicing in the Trump victory as the salvation of a nation in decline. On other side sit the committed progressives who are still smarting from an election in which they were trounced in the electoral college, even as Hillary Clinton garnered a clear majority of the popular vote.
As a classical liberal who did not vote for either candidate, I stand in opposition to both groups. And after assessing Trump’s performance during the first month of his presidency, I think it is clear that he ought to resign. However, it important to cut through the partisan hysteria to identify both what Trump is doing right and wrong in order to explain my assessment of his presidency to date.
On the positive side is the simple fact that Trump won the election. What is right about Trump is what was wrong with Clinton—her promise to continue, and even expand, the policies of the Obama administration. The day after the election, it was clear that none of her policy proposals would be implemented under a Trump presidency, coupled with a Republican Congress. As I have long argued, there are good reasons to critique the progressive world view. Progressives believe that reduced levels of taxation and a strong dose of deregulation would do little or nothing to advance economic growth. In their view, only monetary and fiscal policy matter for dealing with sluggish growth, so they fashion policy on the giddy assumption that their various schemes to advance union power, consumer protection, environmental, insurance, and financial market regulation—among others—only affect matters of distribution and fairness, but will have no discernible effect on economic growth. In making this assumption, they assume, as did many socialists and New Dealers in the 1930s, that it is possible to partition questions of justice and redistribution from those of economic prosperity.
In taking this position, they fail to account for how administrative costs, major uncertainty, and distorted incentives affect capital formation, product innovation, and job creation. Instead, today’s progressives have their own agenda for wealth creation that includes such remedies as a $15 minimum wage, stronger union protections, and an equal pay law with genuine bite. But these policies will necessarily reduce growth by imposing onerous barriers on voluntary exchange. The fact that there was any economic growth at all under the Obama administration—and even then, it was faltering and anemic—had one cause: the Republican Congress that blocked the implementation of further progressive policies and advanced a pro-growth agenda.
Read the rest here: https://ricochet.com/410945/time-trump-resign/
Oi vey. Another one.
So, Trump won the election. Efforts to sway the Electoral College failed. The military hasn’t toppled him. Calls for his assassination have fallen on deaf ears. Mass temper tantrums haven’t caused him to run for the hills. So he should just resign.
No — I did not read more than the excerpt. The writer needs to get to the frigging point.
Like h3ll! He is just getting started.
He was fairly elected by we, the people. He will resign when we say so.
Sit down and shut up.
ASSHAT ALERT!!!!
One of the latest comments: “Bryan G. Stephens
No GOP president should ever again resign. No Democrat ever would. When you are at war, don’t side line Patton because he hit a soldier.”
Let’s see many called for Trump to pack it in throughout the campaign and Trump continued on regardless. He doesn’t flinch when the going gets tough. I hope things calm down a bit as time goes on but likely not. Trump will still persevere. He won certainly as a result of that. He is also resourceful and will deal with every problem that comes up in his own way.
The commie book behind him in picture is The People’s Welfare.
Here is the Amazon exerpt:
Much of today’s political rhetoric decries the welfare state and our maze of government regulations. Critics hark back to a time before the state intervened so directly in citizens’ lives. In The People’s Welfare, William Novak refutes this vision of a stateless past by documenting America’s long history of government regulation in the areas of public safety, political economy, public property, morality, and public health. Challenging the myth of American individualism, Novak recovers a distinctive nineteenth-century commitment to shared obligations and public duties in a well-regulated society. Novak explores the by-laws, ordinances, statutes, and common law restrictions that regulated almost every aspect of America’s society and economy, including fire regulations, inspection and licensing rules, fair marketplace laws, the moral policing of prostitution and drunkenness, and health and sanitary codes. Based on a reading of more than one thousand court cases in addition to the leading legal and political texts of the nineteenth century, The People’s Welfare demonstrates the deep roots of regulation in America and offers a startling reinterpretation of the history of American governance.
” most divisive period of American politics since the end of the Second World War” -— Really? Little Rock, Selma, MLK Jr murder, Vietnam, Watergate, Bork hearings...
This guy is actually one of the smartest people I have ever met—I was seated next to him at a dinner once. And I thought he was a conservative, at least once upon a time he was. But boy is he off the deep end now.
Good catch.
I couldn’t stand to look at his ugly mug long enough to study the background.
Small sized on the original page, it became hideously large when copied.
My apologies to all. (heh)
In your dreams.
Assholes always saying that “it’s time” for this or that. Go swimming!
” ...I stand in opposition to both groups.”
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In politics, the perfect can be the enemy of the good. Your failure to support Trump was actually helping Hillary. Unlike you, most supporters of Trump’s more conservative opponents in the primary, men like Walker and Cruz, are probably thanking God that Trump is leading us rather than Hillary.
In other words, Trump should resign because liberals hate him.
“330 comments at the source.”
How are they trending? Approving of the author’s opinion or disapproving? I do NOT want to dignify it with a “click” ! ;)
>>Hillary Clinton garnered a clear majority of the popular vote.
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Right there is the point where I stop reading.
It is clear that HRC did NOT win the legitimate popular vote, not by a long shot. This has been pointed out time and again. Dead, multiple, illegal invader votes, and Soros machinations don’t count. DJT won by millions.
I really think it’s past “talking” time. We are a hair’s breath away from another phase.
Ingest excrement, Epstein!
Time for Epstein to get used to Trump punching him in the mouth every day for the next eight years. Just like Obama did us. Difference is Obama is a wimp. Trump isn’t. And it’s gonna huuurt.
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