End of an Error?
Maybe you have seen the bumper stickers heralding "January 20, 2017, the end of an error." Millions have looked forward to Friday since January 20, 2008. I haven't, and truthfully, that day was a peaceful transition. A president despised by the left and right, who, at the end of the day, acted in good conscience for the best of the nation, left DC with no fanfare, retiring to his ranch. He has been nearly silent over the past 8 years,
Most people on the right, while not happy that a Far left Democrat had won, were willing to give the first black president a chance. Don't argue, it was true, which lasted until he forced the spending bill to keep government unions afloat through Congress without a single Republican vote. He drew the lines, and he later did the same with Obamacare, which is when the Tea party movement began. Instead of working on climate change, or immigration reform, he chose to push through the nirvana of progressive politics, government healthcare.
With the Tea Party, it really was the policy, not the person, and that was the problem. Progressives won't buy that, because to them, it is all about the individual in power. That way, when the policies fail, which they inevitably do, they blame the individual. The protests were peaceful, they cleaned up after themselves, and went back to their lives. (unlike Occupy Wall Street and other such groups)
Progressives are protesting, doing everything they can to wreck the Trump presidency. That is understandable as well, as they have spent the last 8 years creating a cult of personality, making the Presidency an office of considerable autonomous power, and now it is being handed over to Trump. Regardless of what they say about President Obama's legacy, the truth is that most of it can be overturned by the stroke of a pen. They didn't care, because they anticipated tossing the keys to Hillary, and allowing her to continue.
Trump is not an ideologue. He is probably the most apolitical president since Eisenhower. He is certainly no racist. He has supported the gay agenda long before prominent Democrats did. Every other -ism or -ist is the same. Throw it in the garbage. He is no conservative. He advocates for government single payer healthcare, for goodness sake. While he may throw some Supreme Court nominations to the right wing, it is only because he probably has the same respect for the Court and its decisions that Andrew Jackson, or Barack Obama did. (well, except Roe v Wade.) He is a businessman, and he can't afford the luxury of upsetting discriminating against anyone. Maybe that is what the left is afraid of. He will take their issues, and enact some of them under the GOP flag, potentially destroying the chains of the Democrats' special interest groups.
His nominees have been spot on for someone that wants to reform government, to run it like a business. I have doubts of the ability of anyone to reform the government, but if any one can, it would be an Alpha Male that owes no favors to lobbyists, politicians, consultants, etc.
The bull in the china shop. It is going to be a bumpy ride.
Most people on the right, while not happy that a Far left Democrat had won, were willing to give the first black president a chance. Don't argue, it was true, which lasted until he forced the spending bill to keep government unions afloat through Congress without a single Republican vote. He drew the lines, and he later did the same with Obamacare, which is when the Tea party movement began. Instead of working on climate change, or immigration reform, he chose to push through the nirvana of progressive politics, government healthcare.
With the Tea Party, it really was the policy, not the person, and that was the problem. Progressives won't buy that, because to them, it is all about the individual in power. That way, when the policies fail, which they inevitably do, they blame the individual. The protests were peaceful, they cleaned up after themselves, and went back to their lives. (unlike Occupy Wall Street and other such groups)
Progressives are protesting, doing everything they can to wreck the Trump presidency. That is understandable as well, as they have spent the last 8 years creating a cult of personality, making the Presidency an office of considerable autonomous power, and now it is being handed over to Trump. Regardless of what they say about President Obama's legacy, the truth is that most of it can be overturned by the stroke of a pen. They didn't care, because they anticipated tossing the keys to Hillary, and allowing her to continue.
Trump is not an ideologue. He is probably the most apolitical president since Eisenhower. He is certainly no racist. He has supported the gay agenda long before prominent Democrats did. Every other -ism or -ist is the same. Throw it in the garbage. He is no conservative. He advocates for government single payer healthcare, for goodness sake. While he may throw some Supreme Court nominations to the right wing, it is only because he probably has the same respect for the Court and its decisions that Andrew Jackson, or Barack Obama did. (well, except Roe v Wade.) He is a businessman, and he can't afford the luxury of upsetting discriminating against anyone. Maybe that is what the left is afraid of. He will take their issues, and enact some of them under the GOP flag, potentially destroying the chains of the Democrats' special interest groups.
His nominees have been spot on for someone that wants to reform government, to run it like a business. I have doubts of the ability of anyone to reform the government, but if any one can, it would be an Alpha Male that owes no favors to lobbyists, politicians, consultants, etc.
The bull in the china shop. It is going to be a bumpy ride.
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