Despite the headlines pointing to Donald Trump’s crazy stuff and legal issues?
He HAS changed several things in regard to the environment, immigration, the judiciary , taxes and other policies during his 3 years in office…
Republican have had things their way….
And Trump has worked HARD to undo ANYTHING that even smells of Barack Obama…..
Vox does a review….
The scandals, the leaks, the outrages, and the bizarre tweets of the last three years can distract from an important fact about President Donald Trump: He has changed policy in ways that affect the lives of millions of Americans.
Some of the Trump agenda is standard for a Republican president. White-collar criminal prosecutions have hit a 33-year low. The Justice Department defends state laws that could kick thousands off the voting rolls. The National Labor Relations Board is now more sympathetic to employers than unions. And military spending is on track to reach the same levels as during the height of the Iraq War.
But he’s gone further. While the media, understandably, focuses on Trump’s many scandals, his administration has quietly enacted a far more aggressive agenda than his Republican predecessors. Big boosts to fossil fuel production have come at the expense of an unprecedented deterioration in air quality. Tens of thousands of people have lost health insurance by administrative fiat, and millions are in the process of losing their nutritional assistance through the same mechanism. He’s remade the judiciary, installing conservative judges at twice Obama’s pace, and he’s consolidated a conservative majority on the Supreme Court that may endure for decades.
Tax changes were Trump’s biggest legislative accomplishment, creating a huge windfall for wealthy shareholders and small gains for the middle class — with revenue losses much larger than initially forecast. He’s also undertaken significant but little-noticed alternations in supervision of Wall Street that increase the riskiness of the banking system, plus drastic changes to immigration policy that go far beyond wall construction.
The immigration changes align with Trump’s main campaign themes, even if they don’t line up in detail with what he promised. But much of this amounts to delivering for big business and the wealthy in a much more dramatic way than his “populist” positioning would indicate. Promises to voters to protect clean air, provide better health care, crack down on banks, and tax the rich have fallen entirely by the wayside.
As 2020 approaches, Trump’s achievements are a reminder that Trump and his team are doing real things that have real impacts on real lives. His successes explain why the conservative movement is solidly behind him, despite its considerable doubts from four years ago. Regardless of what Trump tweets or says or does during the election, it’s worth remembering there’s more to him than the Trump Show….
image…nationalreview.com
Yes here it is for all to see.
And there are those here and elsewhere who try to convince us that Donald Trump “really” isn’t a Republican?
What a Laugh!
He is the quintessential Republican.Indeed, he is the heart and soul of today’s Republican Party.
This is what the Republican Party is all about!
As I mentioned in the post about Pence.
In 2016 the media proclaimed Trump as some sort of. “independent” within the Republican Party.
It’s abundantly clear now that is not at all the case.
There’s no daylight between what Trump believes and what conservative Republicans believe. Not on judges, not on social issues, not on taxes, not on health care. And now not in trade either.
That Trump “doesn’t really believe anything”–doesn’t matter.
A vote for Trump is clearly a vote for the GOP agenda. Not at all a vote for an independent or new kind of Republican.
There used to be a lot of Republicans, and there are still a significant number, who genuinely wanted to protect, conserve and enhance the environment (e.g. Wm Ruckelshaus, the 1st EPA administrator), although, where possible, they generally preferred to do so using market mechanisms rather than government intervention.
The Trumpublican Party on the other hand, is what was once unimaginable, an openly and militantly anti-environmental and pro-despoliation political party.
Pro-conservation Republicans are now in as untenable position as LGBTQ Republicans or ethnic-minority Republicans.
They might still find it impossible to join or support the Democrats, but it’s hard to see how they can stay with and within the once-Grand Old Party.
[Teddy Roosevelt heard grumbling off-stage.]
Never Trump people ARE still out there….
But will have to hide behind rocks until Trump exits the stage….
Just so you Fully understand James?
The line is my post ,”…And there are those HERE( emphasis added) was directed squarely at you.
Gotcha Jack….
I understand u threw down at me….
SOP….
Countdown to how long James can go without assuring us that Trump is not “really” a Republican.
One day?A week?
CG isn’t around anymore so someone has to keep up that line.
He, he, he….
Keep it alive, eh Jack?
As you always say…
Just keeping it real.
Indeed….
Dave, I’m not sure whom you are thinking about when you say there are modern day pro-conservation Republicans? If conservation is important to you, it is hard to imagine that you would be a Republican even ten years ago. It is much easier to understand a LGBT Republican or a black Republican.