commonsense wrote: ↑Tue Sep 06, 2022 7:01 pm
Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Tue Sep 06, 2022 6:11 pm
commonsense wrote: ↑Tue Sep 06, 2022 5:51 pm
This might be a good place to outline the good Trump did.
Wall? Economy? Not COVID-panicking? ISIL? Not losing Afghanistan to terrorists? Not causing wars? Not taking bribes, or covering for a drug-addled son? Allowing oil to be pumped? Not having a supply-chain crisis? Suppressing CRT propagandizing in public schools? Keeping Iran and China on the back foot?
Just suggestions: if I were American, that's what I'd be inclined to think might be good.
I like your suggestions except he didn’t finish the Wall or get Mexico to pay for it.
I think you've got to give him credit for
nearly doing so...he was only stopped because Biden wouldn't finish what he essentially had done, after they said it was an impossible task. And it's sure evident that not only America needed it, but also the desperate immigrants and the few who are actually fighting the cartels in Mexico needed him to succeed in giving the U.S. control of its own southern border.
Also, Trump and many others didn’t panic over Covid, but I’m not sure whether those who didn’t panic weren’t going to do so anyway independent of his influence.
They might have. You can't stop nervous Nellies from freaking out. I don't think that much matters, though.
What wouldn't have happened is ridiculous things like he lockdowns, obligatory innoculations and masking mandates. I think we might have expected something closer to the Florida response...which turned out to be the best possible, really. And the U.S. wouldn't have been so slow to identify the source of the virus and react, without all the nonsense from the Democrats about it not being a China virus, and not being from a lab, and the contrary suggestions all being racist, and so on (remember Pelosi wandering through Chinatown maskless, hugging people to prove that Trump was evil and she was virtuous?). There's really no question that the economy and the reaction to COVID was better under Trump, I would say.
That's the funny thing about Trump: everybody hates him as a person, and yet also loves almost everything he did. And with the Biden crew, they seem to excuse any number of monumental, spectacular, world-class failures and any number of sexual scandals, and just keep on believing, even when the insanity of the Left is in fullblown evidence.
From the sidelines, it's hard to understand. Something very weird happened when Trump went from being a Democrat to a Republican. For some reason, he became the Left's version of the Devil.