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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCan someone help with a list of Trump's greatest accomplishments?
I keep hearing Republicans, even ones that voted to impeach him, say that they liked "a lot" of his policies but they didn't like his tone or his comments or something else. Nobody ever asks what "policies" they liked??
Perhaps they liked his $2 trillion dollar taxcuts? Most of it went to the wealthy and most of the taxcut went back into the stock market in stock buy backs. Many people benefited from their 401Ks when the market went up... but the price was paid by the non-propertied classes at the bottom of the ladder. They will be burdened with the debt for years to come. They will be deprived of wages and public services because of that taxcut.
What other "great accomplishments" can you think of?
Some may say that he brought the price of gasoline down? But what was the price of gasoline when he took over? Their praise of the economy and job creation do not match their rhetoric. In fact, Obama Administration created more jobs in their last 3 years than Trump created in his first three years. As we know, there were massive job losses when the COVID hit in his last year. He ended up with a net loss of jobs, as I recall?
So when they embrace the "Big Lie" and say that Trump won the election in a landslide, we should be very skeptical. They should be called out.
How could someone go for 4 years in the polls, and never top 50%? How could someone so weak in the polls claim they won a "landslide victory"? It doesn't make sense.
They need to be slapped down with facts when they start spouting the "Big Lie" that the election was stolen and that Trump won by a "landslide". He was given every option in the world to prove his claims of fraud, including over sixty times in the courts, and he failed every time.
The oxygen needs to be shut off on the "Big Lie" immediately.
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True Dough
(19,899 posts)did so many unscrupulous things while in office -- and before politics -- and was hardly held to account for any of them. So he has been "Teflon Don" and it's surely something his sycophants admire and wish to emulate.
But hopefully Donny's days of freedom are numbered. The must be a cell waiting for him somewhere, hopefully soon.
El Supremo
(20,375 posts)for the Democrats.
Rorey
(8,512 posts)doc03
(36,508 posts)so it could be a song from the Village People. U S M C A
kentuck
(112,539 posts)Would either of those be considered an "accomplishment"?
Whatever the list of accomplishments might be, you can bet your last dollar that his list of failures is much, much longer.
Enter stage left
(3,784 posts)SWBTATTReg
(23,970 posts)Perhaps what you should do is tell them what Biden has restored/is restoring that the former idiot PINO shut down.
walkingman
(8,241 posts)the US officially recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. This fits their narrative of what they believe as far the "end of times". I don't think that will change or otherwise their whole ideology would crumble. IMO, his "base" will continue to exist in that form.
Personally think it is all about political expediency and he is playing to a predictable crowd.
Ka-Dinh Oy
(11,686 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(114,311 posts)Unfortunately he didn't go away quietly.
tinrobot
(11,444 posts)Getting to that point was devastating, but still...
keithbvadu2
(39,778 posts)Hekate
(94,218 posts)betsuni
(27,255 posts)15 percent in October 2016 to 80 percent in February 2017, and the percentage of Republicans who thought that the country was going in the right direction increased from 24 percent in December 2016 to 70 percent in July 2017. All fantasy.