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Reporters, I beg you: When voters claim they have doubts about Trump’s personality but support “his policies,” ask one simple question:
Which policies?
The stammering will be more interesting than anything they have to say.
Reporters, I beg you: When voters claim they have doubts about Trump’s personality but support “his policies,” ask one simple question:
Which policies?
The stammering will be more interesting than anything they have to say.
Oh he’s got policies and they are popular. Some of them are totally nuts but the core of it is “American industry first” - his domestic and foreign record reflect this. He’s not big on war, which is a relief, and is big on protectionism (i.e. restrict trade to help local economy). He’s the party of tax breaks for business & favourable trade & strong borders & Christian nationalism & not starting beef internationally
Overall, despite all the drama and racism, at least he’s not a warmonger (like pretty much everyone else). He just did one little local coup/riot. “Boys will be boys” as they say XD hahaha
I guess we’ve forgotten his many suggestions on using nukes on other countries and even hurricanes, and that brief moment where he played “mine is bigger than yours” with North Korea. Totally peaceful guy.
Remember when he was trying like hell to start a war with Iran before COVID took over to dominate the headlines?
Haha he talks trash but didn’t really do anything
“Not starting beef internationally”???
International relations were horrible under Trump, including several near-misses at large-scale war (remember Qasem Soleimani?). Just because he says he doesn’t like war doesn’t mean he wasn’t constantly pushing the US toward it.
Even the US’s relationship with their biggest trade partner Canada came under tension under his presidency, with incredibly harsh aluminum and lumber tariffs.
The thing with Canada is exactly the definition of protectionism that I mentioned. He successfully did not start new wars afaik, and the overall stance is “fuck the world, America #1, peace out or ill nuke you”
You’re right about Canada. I debated whether to include that point, but being Canadian myself, it felt wrong not to mention it.
Saying “peace out or I’ll nuke you” is literally the simplest possible way to start a war. You can’t just walk into a building waving around a gun and expect things not to escalate. We’re lucky things happened to work out the way they did.
His trade protectionism was the one single thing I was looking forward to when he became the presumptive nominee. He bungled it worse than I ever could have imagined. Source 1 Source 2
The only thing he did for the economy was prevent any oversight on the PPP.