One key step in dismantling the left is not letting men compete in women’s beauty pageants and use women’s restrooms. Trump is on the politically correct side on that issue. I hope he’ll leave it to the states, but in his personal business dealings, he agrees with the left on this issue, so that makes him potentially wobbly on the issue.
All the left’s major successes in the last decade has been around social issue policy. That’s the area where we need to fight them the hardest but the area where Trump is least willing to do so.
The left hasn’t been winning on higher taxes and new socialist programs very much. Taxes is the one thing Obama caved on to the Republicans in his presidency. They passed Obamacare and immediately lost the Congress for six years. Government spending is a problem but Trump is arguing for the same or more spending on the military, Medicare and Social Security. He’s arguing that economic growth will make up for the deficit. Economic growth should not be an excuse to allow people to remain dependent on government programs.
The public still believes Republicans are far better at fighting wars than Democrats and will vote them in any time that war is an issue.
Republicans are far better at fighting wars than Democrats and will vote them in any time that war is an issue.
A president gets there by choosing some battles and leaving others to states acting on state rights.
The pattern for Republican presidents has been to leave these social issues to the states (well, except of course, for Democrat presidents) and to tackle federal issues of wars, nuclear proliferation, border invasion, national debt, legislative over reach.
Most states are governed by Republicans who can and should stand or fall on these hot button social issues.