Here's what a second term of Trump would look like

[Zorro]

Presidential campaigns are often characterized as an extended job interview, an imperfect analogy at best. But imagine you were interviewing a candidate for a job, you asked him what he wanted to accomplish in the position, and he answered you the way President Trump did when Sean Hannity asked him on Thursday, “What are your top priority items for a second term?”:

Well one of the things that will be really great: You know, the word “experience” is still good. I always say talent is more important than experience, I’ve always said that. But the word “experience” is a very important word. It’s a very important meaning. I never did this before, I never slept over in Washington. I was in Washington, I think, 17 times, all of a sudden I’m president of the United States, you know the story, I’m riding down Pennsylvania Avenue with our first lady and I say, “This is great.”

But I didn’t know very many people in Washington, it wasn’t my thing. I was from Manhattan, from New York. Now I know everybody. And I have great people in the administration. You make some mistakes, like you know an idiot like Bolton, all he wanted to do is drop bombs on everybody. You don’t have to drop bombs on everybody. You don’t have to kill people.

“Thanks for coming,” you’d say to this job applicant. “Don’t call us, we’ll call you.”

Through this inarticulate stream of consciousness, there isn’t even the slightest attempt to answer the question: What does Trump want to do with a second term? Does anyone have any idea?

Because the president himself doesn’t appear to, let’s see if we can figure it out for ourselves.

While the president himself may not have much of a clue what he would do in a second term, the ideologues and grifters he has surrounded himself with certainly do. For instance, on the same day Trump held his “town hall” with Hannity, his administration filed a brief urging the Supreme Court to nullify the Affordable Care Act, an action that would snatch health coverage away from 23 million people, strip away everyone’s protections for preexisting conditions and throw the entire American health-care system into chaos. In the midst of a pandemic.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/06/26/heres-what-second-term-trump-would-look-like/

[louis-t]

1. With Republicans, the cruelty is the whole point.

[hydrolastic]

2. The infrastructure will be sold and privatized

An article i read three years ago outlined Trumps infrastructure bill something like 200 billion was to go to rebuilding roads and bridges the rest of the trillion dollars was to come from selling off the power plants and transmission lines. Privatizing the power generating dams in his second term that would be the prize for Trump and his cronies.