Judging Trump

Guest Post by The Zman

From time to time recently, people have asked me if I have second thoughts about this post from a few months ago. I was a tiny bit more critical than normal, but in my defense, I have no sense of humor on the gun issue. There are certain issues that draw a bright line between the chosen and the damned. Guns are one of them. There’s no “sort of getting it right” or “only being a bit wrong.” You either get it or you don’t and I still don’t think Trump gets it, but he has shut up about it. He went to the NRA convention, so I’ll give him a pass.

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That said, I’m still waiting for Trump to deliver on the stuff that is important to me. Despite the bold talk on immigration, he has so far been an economic populist, rather than a national populist. His best work has been on trade, where he has gotten tough on China and re-opened the NAFTA deal. He’s also dismantled the climate change apparatus inside the Department of Energy and cut a ton of regulations. These are all good things and in another age, I’d probably be over the moon. But, it is not another age. It is now.

Despite making lots of noise on the issue, nothing much has changed on the immigration front. The wall is no closer to reality than it was two years ago. The number of guest worker visas has increased, rather than decreased. The DACA issue is still out there, as Trump now waits on the states to solve the problem for him. He put a complete dunce in as secretary of DHS, making things worst on that front, rather than better. Worse yet, that perfidious weasel Paul Ryan is quietly trying to sneak an amnesty through the House.

In fairness, the immigration issue is not an easy puzzle to solve. No reasonable person should have expected sweeping reform in the first two years of his presidency. The fact is, a third of the GOP is bought and paid for by the open borders lobbies. Another third are so utterly clueless on the issue, they don’t know where to start, even if they wanted to push the issue. Still, Trump has been outfoxed and outworked by his opponents on immigration. He seems to like talking about immigration more than doing anything about it.

All that said, he has a lot of time to make things right and he has shown an extremly rare ability to address his own errors. The gun issue is a good example. He was making all of the usual mistakes on guns, then he wised up and reversed course. Most politicians are the opposite of a fine wine. They get worse with age. Because he is not an ideologue, Trump learns from his mistakes and adjusts. Maybe on the immigration front we see the same sort of growth we saw on guns. There’s still time to get a lot done.

The bigger issue though, the thing now looming over his entire presidency, is the wide ranging conspiracy engineered by senior elements of the intelligence community. A few months ago it looked like a handful of radicalized mid-level bureaucrats. What’s becoming clear is this was a conspiracy hatched by the men at the top of the intelligence community, with help from the White House, to not only help Hillary Clinton, but engineer a coup after the election to get rid of Trump. This reality has to color any assessment of Trump.

Think about the stones it takes to face off against the intel community. They literally know all of your secrets. In the case of Trump, they have the secrets of his friends, family and business associates. Even if they can’t ruin him, they can ruin people he knows. It was 18 months ago that Chuck Schumer warned Trump about doing this. When Schumer said, “Intel officials ‘have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you’” he was not being flippant or rhetorical. We now know the intel community has been at this for a while.

It’s not just the fact that the intel community has the capacity to spy on everyone and appears to be spying on everyone. It’s that these are vicious, craven people lacking a moral compass. It’s ironic that James Comey was fond of accusing his people of lacking a moral compass, when it is now clear the guy is a sociopath incapable of knowing right from wrong. Clapper and Brennan have no scruples whatsoever. There’s also the fact that on the CIA side, they still have guys who kill people on behalf of the American deep state.

Now, we can’t know how much Trump knows, or how much much he knew back in the campaign about the spying. It is entirely possible that honest people had told him what was happening long ago. We do know Mike Rogers went to Trump Tower after the election and warned Trump about this operation. Once in office, Trump would have been briefed on a lot of things related to this. Even if he thought it was just a handful of crackpots in the FBI, it took mighty big stones to take the issue head on.

One of the funny things about these times is they are entirely unexpected. Back when Trump came down the escalator and started talking like Pat Buchanan, I recall thinking, “I can’t imagine a scenario where I vote for him, but I never imagined anyone saying these things again either.” Trump is turning out to be the most consequential president in our lifetime, which is not something any sane person could have imagined two years ago. I think we have to withhold judgement on him until these great events of this age unfold.

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rhs jr
rhs jr

Somebody pulls his strings on policies and he offers feeble excuses. He ended historic peace talks with N. Korea supposedly because Kim called the VP a dummy. Trump is a dummy to end the peace talks, screw whores, attack Syria twice, move the Embassy, ignore the Wall and let illegals walk on US, not end Chem-spraying, not shrink the budget, not audit the Fed or Ft Knox, not rip the Democrats a new one on Vote Fraud, not prosecute the Clinton Foundation and Harpy for the illegal servers processing Top Secrets, the IRS and other agencies harassing conservatives, not ordering states to secure public schools, not ending government racial discrimination, not looking for the 20 trillion stolen etc.

Iska Waran
Iska Waran

There’s no proof he screwed the porn star. He may have just donated that $130,000 to help her get a jump start on a better life.

A. R. Wasem
A. R. Wasem

Good one – first good laugh today.

JustTruth
JustTruth

Bravo rhs jr

kokoda the Deplorable Raccoon and I-LUV-CO2
kokoda the Deplorable Raccoon and I-LUV-CO2

Trump is doing just fine except for one very major item – Middle East, all for Israhell.

The Intelligence Community, the Democrats, the RINO’s, and the Media have been against Trump from day one. They have all been pressing the Russiagate false garbage. Can you name any other President in modern times that has been subjected to such headwinds.

Would you have ever imagined the FBI being used for political purposes against a Presidential candidate and then the actual President; and the DOJ. This is unprecedented and not the America we older folks recognize.

pyrrhus
pyrrhus

No President has faced such treasonous attacks from practically the entire beltway, with the exception of the military.

whiskey tango foxtrot

I’m WTF and I approve this message.

Stubb
Stubb

NOW I get it.

0verthecliff
0verthecliff

By their fruit ye shall know them.

starfcker

“Trump is turning out to be the most consequential president in our lifetime, which is not something any sane person could have imagined two years ago.” Are you questioning my sanity, Z?

Anonymous
Anonymous

I don’t think anyone here has any questions whatsoever regarding your sanity.

pyrrhus
pyrrhus

Indeed. I expected Trump to be a transitional President, though I didn’t expect the level of treasonous attacks on him by the Deep State.

Iska Waran
Iska Waran

I’m disappointed in Trump. Of course there’s the complete lack of wall, but he’s also become less entertaining. We haven’t had a good Taco Bowl/Cinco de Mayo/”I Love Hispanics” tweet since 2016. He did force leftists to defend MS-13 “animals”, but that’s not quite as good. Maybe he should take after Rosie O’Donnell again. Or send another case of Trump Water to the ever-parched Little Marco Rubio.

JustTruth
JustTruth

Trump has turned into an enormous “disaster” and worldwide shitshow. Even making Kim look like a statesman and great human being. Trump comes across as an ugly, belligerent, duplicitous bully, angry at the entire world. The endless threatening of sovereign countries to do what the US tells them to. Anyone who has been brought up as a freedom loving American with principles, intelligence and reason, would come to the same conclusion.

Trump is exhibiting enormous weakness on the world stage, and everyone on his team is complicit in it..

Iska Waran
Iska Waran

Ugly, belligerent, duplicitous bully, angry at the entire world and threatening sovereign countries. Yeah, but what’s the bad part?

Anonymous
Anonymous

JustTruth,

Your screen name would be more appropriate if you compared your views to the reality of the world around you and adjusted it accordingly.

Foot in the Forest
Foot in the Forest

2 alternatives when judging trump in the future. He succeeds and Hill and Bill, Barack, Comey, Clapper, Brennan and a whole host of others win an all expense paid vacation to club Gitmo. Trump dies of “NATURAL” causes, presuming TPTB have gotten more subtle since JFK. I am hoping for alternative #1 which would cause heads to explode up and down both coasts. Alternative #2 would fly with tbper’s and all like us as well as a lead balloon. Both would cause a massive upheaval in society and possible open warfare. Either way we will be living that Chinese curse of interesting times.

Hollywood Rob

Ladies, before you get your undies in a bunch you might wanna take a minute to hop onto Google Earth and look at the boarder with Mexico. You will find that a very large portion of the boarder already has a wall. We maybe not a real wall like you think would be nice, but a big ass fence with barbed wire on top and in many places there is actually a wall. The idea of building the wall might not be as consequential as you think it is.

Iska Waran
Iska Waran

We want the how-Israel-keeps-out-the-Palestinians kind of Wall.

Ghost

And no one complained about lack of rent payments from the boarder?

Jimmy Torpedo
Jimmy Torpedo

The boarders are living in the US for free after crossing the border.
That is the crux of the biscuit.

Anonymous
Anonymous

They aren’t here for free, we pay them for it.

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