Slight difference of opinion. The only "success" in Trump's 20 months in office has been tax reform, which we all know favored the rich and corporations and gave little relief to the middle of the middle class.
So far he has done little that has positively affected trade policies. The trade tariffs have raised the price of many goods for consumers and have done little positive --yet. Whether withdrawing from the Paris Accord is good or bad depends on who you ask. I think it is bad. I think moving the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem is not a positive. Certainly seeking détente with Russia and N.K. is a good move but there has been absolutely no success yet regarding that. Doing away with Obama's environmental regulations is also positive or negative depending on one's viewpoint. Obviously Trump does not care about environmental concerns. Finally, Trump lost on his promise to repeal and replace Obamacare. Obamacare, as I've often said, certainly has its problems but the Republicans had almost 8 years to come up with a better alternative and failed to do so. The proposed Trumpcare was far worse.
I am not someone who thinks Trump was lucky to become POTUS and I see no reason to impeach him. 8 weeks from today voters will go to cast their votes and let people in this country, and countries throughout the world, what they think of Trump thus far since mid-term elections are a referendum on the sitting POTUS. My current position is Democrats will win back the House and Trump's agenda will be virtually stalled, much as Obama's agenda was stalled once Republicans took control of the House, and then the Senate.
Originally Posted by SpeedRacerXXX
Little he's done "positively?" People can disagree about his choice of Supreme Court nominees or what his trade or immigration policies are. Those are politic and ideological disagreements. But my point is that all these actions have been carried out. They have happened. There is no chaos in the White House. There is no madman acting irrationally.
I remember in 1993 "60 Minutes" had a segment about the "chaos" within the Clinton Administration. Scores of people in his Administration were leaking to the media their dismay that there was no coherent organization of anything. They complained that working there was like attending a graduate seminar in policy analysis where everyone spend countless hours studying an issue and thereafter the President would just smile and say thank you and never act on anything.
As for fitness the most clearly unfit and dangerous President was George W. Bush. He clearly did not have the experience, intelligence or even temperament to be President. He launched a war in Afghanistan that FAILED. We never got a surrender agreement from them and they were never defeated. The same for Iraq. No "mission accomplished" there either. There was no surrender from the government there and America's stupid stated goal was to kill the top fifty members of their government so they went to ground and continued fighting forever. Bush was an idiot, failed in every business or enterprise he ever had anything to do except baseball. Did you hear anyone pointing that out at the time? Hell no. And he mismanaged every other aspect of the economy as well.
As for the tariffs, during the eight years of Obama we lost over 50,000 manufacturing jobs. In the last eighteen months we've regained 200,000 manufacturing jobs. Look at the business press and you'll see US companies are leaving China in droves. Much of this has to do with the venal nature of the Chinese themselves, and rising wages there. But much of it is the tariffs.
Have farmers been hurt by the tariffs? Yes, but who gives a shit. We don't want to be a country which sells corn and soybeans and imports our manufactures. We want to be a country which exports manufactures and not imports them. We want to be an industrial power again. Agriculture is not a priority. We are not a banana republic.
