The series of recent posts regarding problems I document with Trump's term in office so far has concentrated on 1) Trump being the biggest deficit spender per year in the country's history, 2) Trump having no constitutional, statutory, or historical basis for asking Pence to not certify Biden as the winner of the 2020 presidential election on January 6, 2021, & 3) Trump leaving thousands of people in Seattle to fend for themselves against a band of marauding thugs for over three weeks in the summer of 2020.
Die-hard Trump supporters commented that voters don't care about these issues citing some they do care about such as "inflation, high gas prices, & high interest rates - can't buy a house" as if Trump spending $3.6 trillion in 2020 was of no consequence compared to Biden spending $1.9 trillion in 2021 as the cause of the resulting inflation & high interest rates. Trump skates by these die-hard supporters after spending nearly twice as much money as Biden did over these two years.
None of the lists of issues that voters supposedly care about that die-hard Trump supporters presented to me included Social Security & Medicare's solvency problems. Trump sees no problem - a position that will hurt millions of people, either with benefit cuts or much higher payroll taxes. Not good leadership on Trump's part & a definite unawareness on the part of his followers of an issue they will care about in a big way one day soon.
With regard to voters not caring about January 6 - please remember that with the authority I cited in the last post Trump could have called up the DC National Guard instead of saying that Pelosi was in charge of Capitol security & there was nothing he could do. Not a picture of a strong president. Better yet I alway wondered why Trump would not have called off the perceived danger if it was thought so unsafe that calling up thousands of troops was necessary.
In fact, the die-hard Trump supporter who wrote the original comment defending Trump's summer of love dereliction of duty in Seattle saying "Trump could not just go into cities unless asked by the governor" - went off this track after I presented documentation of many of the cases where presidents did "go into cities" uninvited by changing the topic to "election fraud that is going on in the midterms" & that we should "Stop the fraud, so we can have trustworthy elections" which I take to mean elections his candidate wins. Because his comments rambled so much I'm not sure this commenter even recognized he was the one that led me to research the Insurrection Act in the first place.
I know that there is a substantial percentage of die-hard Trump supporters who dismiss anything & everything that does not put Trump in a good light - Mike Huckabee, everyone on NewsMax, & some on FNC for instance. But there are several people who could deliver all of the pro-American policies without the baggage & divisiveness of Trump. Just look @ Senator Mullin ready for a fistfight on the Senate floor. Representative Comer was in a heated dispute also & the media encourages this behavior. We need substance not bluster & Trump is more bluster than substance.
Using all of the above as background I was surprised to read Wliiam Galston's weekly WSJ column entitled "Donald Trump's Insurrection Act Gambit" that, like Sunday's RTE post, reviewed the Insurrection Act of 1792 & the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878. What timing. The difference is that I presented the authority for Trump to federalize the National Guard to enforce the laws of the United States during the summer of 2020 in Seattle as something that should have been done to protect American citizens while Mr. Galston presents this same authority as a danger to constitutional liberties that we all take for granted when in the hands of a person suffering from a narcissistic personality disorder.
Hi Doug - More good anti-Trump stuff. I can’t argue your positions, however, two qualities Trump holds & if his luck continues will give him four more years is, the folks like & trust him…
ReplyDeleteBeautiful article, everything well presented.
ReplyDeleteHi Doug,
ReplyDeleteI understand your points but if the alternative is Trump or Biden, there is no choice.
And yes, I pray the Republicans pick someone other than Trump.
But if it is between the 2 of them the choice is obvious.
We can't have a senile old man, who was never too bright to begin with, and has been running an extortion racket for decades in Delaware, remain as President.
Let's call it the lesser of 2 evils.
I think a big part of the problem is as always, emotion and perception.
The charges they have brought against Trump are not very convincing.
They have also set up a very dangerous precedent. They made Trump a martyr.
The simple reason Biden has to run is to keep his kid and other family members out of jail.
But by bringing these charges against Trump, they may have overplayed their hand.
They leave themselves open to being brought up on charges once they are out of office.
Pelosi, Biden, Clinton, McConnell, etc. The floodgates may be opened.
Retribution can be a bitch.
In effect The Democrats decided to act as Banana Republics do.
And left the nation open to a very ugly upcoming election. This election in my view may be reminiscent of 1860.
One final point, you call out Trump for excessive spending. I agree.
We have to keep in mind this is our fault. We elect these fools who have overspent since LBJ.
They have hooked Americans on overconsumption.
I would venture that 95% of the politicians in Washington and Congress are just as much, if not more guilty than Trump, in regards to spending.
,
You know better than me that once the politicians learned they could get rich by buying votes from lemmings (a/k/a the public), their career and finances were set. The jig was up.
It will take a very unusual leader and a willing public to clean up this mess.
The odds of that are slim and none as Americans have been weaned onto government welfare programs, individuals and corporate.
Hopefully voters will wake up (also known as a miracle) and pick 2 different candidates.
We live in very interesting times.