There’s no half like button so I will simply comment on the parts I agree or disagree with.
No matter the disappointments, this is still the best presidency of my lifetime. Eisenhower MIGHT have been close but after that I can’t think of any modern presidency that was more consequential.
Eisenhower has been growing on me in my historical retrospect, especially when we account for his insistence on using men like Billy Graham and others to reinstall Christian faith as a way to combat the social decay and communist scourge. But Reagan, Antonin Scalia (and almost Bork) as well as the fall of the Soviet bloc was also pretty consequential.
Row was over turned. If nothing else good happened that was an historic accomplishment.
But the unchecked use of the morning after pill is a travesty.
And the court, including Barrett, has been very good. The Chevron doctrine was overturned, the 2A has been protected for a generation, there have been some major wins against the beauracracies.
Agreed. Barrett was another DEI hire that looks horrible in retrospect but the Trump court is still a marvelous unraveling to the beauracratic state.
The foreign policy wins have been real. Venezuela was a master stroke. Cubs is looking good.
Agreed. Master class in foreign policy wins, in addition to Abraham Accords.
Iran, in hindsight, is going to be a world changing win.
This is still a work in progress. It’s a D+/C- right now. He needs to remediate himself and start thinking more outside the box. Iran is happy to drag this out knowing the neither Trump nor the American people want a land war with thousands of troops. If he doesn’t course correct even more, it’ll be the biggest stain on his presidency.
The strait was shut down for over 100 days and the price of oil didn’t get close to all time highs. That fact alone rewrites the world order. Although there is a very real political risk in the short term, the long term divideds will be large.
Agreed. Finding new trade routes and revenue channels is a plus all around.
And we shouldn’t minimize the importance of the immigration wins. The flood across the border was stopped. That represented millions of people a year invading our country. Yes, there’s more to be done but the first rule of crisis management is to stop the bleeding. Trump did that.
Amen and amen. His biggest win. Even his biggest critics have given either subtle praise or have been silent (indication that they’ve lost the ability to credibly criticize). Our domestic security hadn’t been this positive in generations.
It’s not all perfect. I really wish he hadn’t done Trump coin.
Or the other more nationalized/socialized minded solutions he’s offered instead of free markets, including horrible budget proposals and zero effort to reduce the budget deficit on the spending side (only encouraging growth on the credit side)
But it has been a transformational presidency that bought us years to address the deeper problems.
Especially the focus on border security and the insistence that NATO grow a pair and start providing its own security. Even the Canadian PM prick admitted that recently.
And those are important years. The tail end of the boomers represents the zenith of liberalism’s power.
Ehhh, not so fast.
There is going to be a significant shift rightward for the foreseeable future.
In pockets, but not necessarily a complete national sweep. The YouTube and TikTok generation is about as Marxist as you can get. We’ve only just begun to see what the education system has wrought. The college cultural revolutionary guard is planning its takeover of city councils, school boards, state legislatures, and mayorships. The blue has only begun to get bluer.
History is going to look very favorably on this administration.
We’ll have to wait two generations for that. Anyone 16 and older has to die off first. It’s been nearly 40 years since Reagan left office and historians are still hating him. Obama didn't do sh*t and he still gets the historian drool treatment.
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