We need to be honest. Trump was a great President, helped make America great again, stopped Hillary, and lots of other magnificent things. His SCOTUS picks helped get Roe overturned, and lots of other great things. When Trump is on, he's on.
But we can get MORE. And we won't if something isn't done about Trump's Achilles - his personnel instincts, which beget an inability to administer policy. They're a virtual dumpster fire. Sessions, the Mooch, Bolton, Tillersn, Mattis, Giuliani, McCabe, Nikki Haley, Sally Yates, Flynn, Hope Hicks, Reince Priebus, Rod Rosenstein. Oh, and Pence...and endorsing McCarthy. And PA and Alabama primary nonsense.
And this is not an inconsequential Achilles. Indeed, picking Rudy to lead the stolen election charge was a disaster. He may have been America's Mayor but he was out of his league when arguing cases. In fact he was by many accounts hung over and that's why his hair dye was trickling down his face. Maybe that deck was stacked against him, but our "ace" pitcher had no heat and the skipper kept him on the mound out of loyalty.
I'll grant that he had to deal with the swamp, etc. But this is like ballot harvesting and fraud....time to stop bitching.
I love poking they eyes of the MSM. I love memes. But I want lower taxes, a secure border, enemies of America that fear is, and peace and prosperity at home.
Ignoring a problem won't make it go away, and this is a big problem. Re-electing Trump is tough enough, but I don't want to spend four years crossing my fingers on him selecting competent pit bulls to administer MAGA.
All that being said, maybe this is the best we can do.
I’ll repeat myself. This is about ADMINISTRATION. And it’s a problem in Trump-land. And he keeps tripping over coffee tables that HE PLACED.
We need to be honest. Trump was a great President, helped make America great again, stopped Hillary, and lots of other magnificent things. His SCOTUS picks helped get Roe overturned, and lots of other great things. When Trump is on, he’s on.
But we can get MORE. And we won’t if something isn’t done about Trump’s Achilles - his personnel instincts, which beget an inability to administer policy.
The “But we can get MORE” part is where you lose me. Trump’s personnel problems were only a problem because of what hw was trying to accomplish in Washington. Deep staters like Bush, Clinton, Obama and Biden never have the kinds of personnel problems Trump had. Is that because they’re better at picking personnel? Hardly. When you’re a Uniparty president, you know the bureaucracy isn’t going to stab you in the back, because you’re all playing for the same team.
If by “But we can get MORE”, you mean electing a professional politician like DeSantis (or any of the others, save Vivek, for that matter) you’re really missing the big picture.
I think Trump tried to work within the system during his first term. Towards that end, he hired a number of people with beltway connections who he believed would be loyal to him and use their connections to help him implement his agenda. Considering that most of the deep state was already there when he arrived, it seemed like a reasonable approach at the time.
Even having someone loyal to him heading up a department didn’t automatically mean there would be no undermining of his authority by entrenched underlings who were already there when he arrived. The rot runs deep. And because it’s difficult to fire federal employees, greater emphasis should be made at fixing that, instead of focusing exclusively on who heads the department.