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kentuck

(111,056 posts)
Mon Feb 14, 2022, 10:05 AM Feb 2022

Another "Big Lie" that is being promoted by the Republican Party.

"Yes, he may have been divisive and politically incorrect, but he had a lot of great policies", they say.

Really?

What were those great policies? Trade treaties created to enrich himself over the interest of the nation and making enemies around the world. Perhaps it was the great effort he put behind destroying NATO and our European allies? Everything he did seemed to be for the benefit of Russia and Putin because that was what was best for him.

Perhaps it was the hatred and division he promoted that tore our country apart? What policy could over-shadow that?

But Republicans of all stripes continue to talk about all the "great things" that Trump did. It is a Big Lie. He did no great things. He was a criminal from the beginning.

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Walleye

(30,984 posts)
1. They repeat it like they're brainwashed. Nobody ever asks them what policies.
Mon Feb 14, 2022, 10:09 AM
Feb 2022

His term ended with a recession and negative job growth. The time they’re talking about when things were so great was when we were cruising on Obama’s economy. Now they want to just pick on Biden, who is a good man with good policies. The news media is so complicit in this

Orrex

(63,172 posts)
5. I have pressed them on that point, in fact
Mon Feb 14, 2022, 10:12 AM
Feb 2022

Predictably, they reply with a regurgitated spew of racist propaganda, touting such "achievements" as "he closed down the border" and "he was tough on the China virus," etc.

Of course, he didn't even do any of the things that they pretend he accomplished, but that hardly matters to the KKKult of ignorant racist fuckheads.

Walleye

(30,984 posts)
6. And they constantly lie about Biden.
Mon Feb 14, 2022, 10:16 AM
Feb 2022

They all say “Biden shut down the Keystone pipeline”. That is not true, he canceled the permit for an extension that hasn’t been built yet. But that lie keeps being told over and over again and nobody calls them on it. They are relentless and our journalists are lazy.

raging moderate

(4,292 posts)
2. Yes, and why did they have no party platform in 2020?
Mon Feb 14, 2022, 10:09 AM
Feb 2022

If Trump's policies were so great, why didn't they write those down to get him re-elected? Obviously, the main attraction of Trump was not anything rational enough to be called a policy.

Samrob

(4,298 posts)
9. He made them (the already wealthy, richer). He openly spouted hate of the "others"
Mon Feb 14, 2022, 12:50 PM
Feb 2022

something they have longed to do but too afraid. He is anti-US government for our programs to help "those others" although "those others" are really us.

Wounded Bear

(58,605 posts)
10. When he ran in '16 I couldn't figure out what "policies" he was running on...
Mon Feb 14, 2022, 12:55 PM
Feb 2022

It hasn't gotten better with time. Hell, the current repub platform is "whatever pleases dear leader."

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