‘ Of course it will empty shelves, that’s the point. Maybe you think that’s a dumb, doomed to fail approach to getting manufacturing back?’
/raises hand
I certainly do.
Good!
Lord knows - to whatever extent I’m known under my current (long ago lost, back in the late 90s/00s) name as some kind of RINO, globalist, elitist whatever.....
DJT was NOT my first choice in 2016 (far from it), nor 2020 (but he was the only realistic option), nor even 2024 (I wish the primaries had gone differently).
But - like a lot of people, with different viewpoints and particulars have done for decades, I cast my vote for the least bad, most practical option.
I suspect - like you - I have my principles. They transcend any single person and they probably are more meaningful, solid, and eternal ideas of free markets, individual liberties, smaller government, and the primacy of the individual.
Also like you, I will *never* compromise them and keep my tongue when a *servant elected official* - even a POTUS - breaches them. I will speak up in objection forever and always when any elected office holder runs afoul of them.
I would prefer someone who believes in my principles as much as I do. I learned long ago, we never get what we want.
Therefore?
When an elected official - even/especially one I voted for, even if he will NEVER get my blind obedience (none will) - bends to reality and changes course?
I am OK will saying “Good. Right move.”.. For the same reason I cast my vote the way I did? The alternative is worse.
If the fanboys get upset? That’s their problem. I have principles that matter far beyond any worship of an individual. I’ll be satiated - not happy, but satiated - when the guy I voted for changes course because he *should* change course.
I have some serious problems with many of the ideas and policies he’s implemented - many are straight out of marxist playbooks - when he changes course?
I will bite my tongue and say “good!”. It’s important for those of us who aren’t populism “true believers” to make it known we voted, too. And we took a chance. And our support matters.
You are only hete to annoy and pester.