Posted on 07/11/2019 11:46:05 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
“...Trump remains a divisive and unpopular leader...”
Media discussing with media...Kinda like the liberal woman at a party who said all my friends say they won’t vote for Trump...
1. Economy. "Trump's best issue"; economic reports showed sharp growth, led by manufacturing. He offers a "caveat:" The distribution of rewards is grossly unequal, and growth has been pumped by deficit spending.
It will be hard to argue that the bottom rung of the economic ladder has not benefited greatly, far more than they benefited under Obama. As to deficit spending, again Obama's record is worse and Trump will argue that it was necessary to get the economy at 3% GDP growth without which there could be no future.
2. Foreign policy. "He threatens fire and fury, imposes economic sanctions and then starts bargaining a deal that produces only modest gains. That’s been the case so far with North Korea, China and Mexico — and it’s probably where Trump wants to head with Iran."
I think Ignatius's characterization of Trump's approach, "fire fury, economic sanctions than bargaining" but he is premature in assessing that he has produced only "modest gains." I'm not very familiar with the details of the Mexico deal but there are no details to the other problems with China, North Korea and Iran. These matters are being actually dealt with in a commonsense fashion which is certainly not something that might be said about Obama's policy in these areas. As Ignatius points out, so long as Trump keeps us out of war, he will win this battle.
3. Immigration. "Don't seem to be costing [Trump] politically." This is a big winner for Trump if he holds his course.
Ignatius seems to long for Joe Biden to be nominated, Biden's slow, agonizing political death is pathetic to watch. Ignatius is an old, white male and has not yet understood that the thrust of the party is for Harris and that is why the party cannot go moderate, see below.
His exhortation to the party to move to the center is, of course, falling on deaf ears because the dynamic of the Democrat party today is to throw moderates under the bus. To mix the metaphor, any ambitious office seeker must swing for the left-field fence or be counted out.
That's true...IF the election was honest & fair.
But we will see the most massive voter fraud in the history of America as the communists were *this* close with Hellary to destroying our Constitutional Republic.
Communist motto: "By any means necessary"
Obama didn't have the Trump economy when he was racking up trillion dollar deficits. And if the 3% growth is due to the deficit spending then how large will the deficit be when the economy slows down? Two trillion? Three?
“...the most massive voter fraud in the history of America...”
This is definitely going to be attempted...I think (hope) that the President has people who are even now working behind closed doors to identify and eliminate it....
To me, that's the story! These press idiots really do not have any perspective what-so-ever and maybe that is an advantage!
Screw the Washington post!
We are all, Republicans as well as Democrats, happy to prime the pump in hard times but we are all equally loathe to cut spending in good times.
Obama, of course, will say that he was priming the pump in bad times having inherited the great recession from George W. Bush. Trump will say the same concerning Obama's economy. Yet no one will advance cutting spending now that the GDP is increasing at about 3%, that puts us in pretty good times.
All of this should be thought of in the context of the debt, a colossal sum of $22 trillion which we have no hope of paying off but a realistic fear of bringing us down unless we have an economy running at better than 3% growth. So getting the economy going was properly Trump's goal, the question now is what do we do about spending?
The coup d’etat conspirators will never see justice. There is two, perhaps three tier, justice system.
A major swamp draining is just beginning. The end of the Democrat Party as we know it is also starting!
For sure.
Remember how rick rolled Republicans felt, when Dole, McCain, Romney were coronated?
Bernie’s fans remember the Burn, alright, and it was their own Party stacking the firewood against them, for hrc.
We would still be cast to the curb, if Trump had not come along and forged a path for us to throw off the shackles of our leadership, and their Media Enforcers.
Nice! I like that.
Yes, nothing takes a country over the cliff like low unemployment.
Love it!!
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