Donald J. Trump has been the biggest blessing for conservatives since Ronald Reagan. As soon as he does something some of the folks on this site don’t like on one or two issues, they start attacking him and some are ready to drop him already (which will be a wonderful way of ushering in Democrat rule again). Have you all-or-nothing types already forgotten what he’s done for us?
-He nominated constitutional conservative and Scalia-like originalist Neil Gorsuch for the Supreme Court
-He reinstituted the Mexico City rule, prohibiting taxpayer funding of abortions abroad
-His AG is currently cracking down on sanctuary cities
-He’s currently accepting bids on the border wall
-ICE has been especially busy deporting criminal illegals because of his executive order on the subject
-Border crossings are down substantially
-He wants us energy independent and has approved the Keystone and Dakota Access Pipelines
-Overturned Obama’s business-killing climate change regulations
-Signed a bill supporting the coal industry
-The stock market and consumer confidence ratings have shot up because of him
-He very soon wants to drastically lower personal and corporate taxes, which will lure business here and stimulate the economy
-He is a huge supporter of the military, police, and the Second Amendment
-His proposed budget wants to greatly upgrade the military, while slashing a lot of unnecessary programs and other funding, including things other presidents have treated as untouchable
-He has signed an executive order requiring that 2 regulations be removed for each new one
-He has instituted a hiring freeze for non-military federal employees
-He chose an education secretary who is a big proponent of school choice
-He is working on tougher vetting measures to try to keep terrorists out of the country
-He is an ardent supporter of Israel and a friend of Bibi Netanyahu’s
-He has stepped up bombings and numbers of troops fighting against ISIS, which is now on the run and potentially on the verge of collapse
-Etc., etc.
And it hasn’t even been three months yet! I hope everyone quits being so unyieldingly doctrinaire and insisting on 100% obedience to your demands for everything. I think we’d all benefit too from realistically assessing what can actually be done with a Congress chocked full of moderate Republicans and with only 2 votes to spare in the Senate. Trump wants to get things accomplished legislatively; that means he has to work with a heck of a lot of people well to the left of the Freedom Caucus. That’s just a fact. The FC is strong enough to derail his agenda, but it isn’t strong enough to get anything passed alone. We should be thrilled that we have Trump, not go overboard in criticizing him for trying to put pressure on a handful of conservatives, so that they’ll compromise and he can actually get some legislation passed and enacted.
The problem is that everything done by executive order can be undone with the stroke of a pen by his successor
Executive orders are not a good way to govern. I freaking hate them to be transparent. At best they are temporary and at worst an abuse of power.
uhhhhhhhhhh Gorsuch will be NO Scalia!!