Trump "screwed" up on immigration by 1) Insulting Mexicans 2) the kids being separated from their parents.
The reason I put quotes around "screwed" is because some of that is "trumped up" and Obama deported over 3 million people without much fanfare so Trump hasn't changed the policy. He just ran on it and sort of put it in everyone's face. So to me it was 1) Liberals would attack him regardless 2) He wasn't kind and gentle about it and the Left was able to exploit this with moderates who want to feel good about how we do things.
He did pull us from the Paris Agreement. That flew in the face of the Left. But engaging North Korea should be seen as a good thing. The tax cuts should be seen as a good thing. It definitely put money in everybody's pockets. However, there is the national debt to consider. How many people are truly concerned about that?
Then you have the tariffs against China. I say he's right to go for it regardless of short-term costs. They need to be made to play ball because they couldn't care less about the WTO.
What am I missing other than his tweets? Kavanaugh? He got blind-sided on that one. It's no surprise he'd pick a Conservative. He stuck with Kavanaugh so that was not so much policy as politics. Maybe that offended some moderates who as I said like the feeling of being "good."
Last edited: Nov 26, 2018