Is there anything more amusing than listening to Republicans talk about Trump's "policies"?
Remember when Trump campaigned as the "law and order" candidate? He nominates a brontosaurus for AG who starts seeking maximum sentences and nullifying consent decrees, then when his poll numbers are in the crapper along comes a wonderful piece of…
Is there anything more amusing than listening to Republicans talk about Trump's "policies"?
Remember when Trump campaigned as the "law and order" candidate? He nominates a brontosaurus for AG who starts seeking maximum sentences and nullifying consent decrees, then when his poll numbers are in the crapper along comes a wonderful piece of popular, bipartisan reform legislation for him to sign, the crafting and passing of which he had nothing to do with, and voila! Now he's the criminal justice reform president!
How about when he sounded like a progressive reformer on healthcare, promising that after killing the ACA they were going to cover everyone - despite the fact that one of the principal complaints about the ACA was its mandate for everyone to be insured? After being forced to confront that he has no idea what he's doing when it comes to healthcare (nobody could have known how hard it would be!) he settles into a pattern of undermining the existing healthcare markets while having his lawyers seek to remove requirements to cover pre-existing conditions - all while lying and saying he's working to protect them. Then later on he declares that the Republican party will be the "party of healthcare", teasing the media with non-existent yet soon-to-be-revealed proposals that are totally in the works right now ...
Oh, or when he pretended that he was all about taxing the rich and then passed a tax bill that was a giant gift to the wealthy? Or said he was going to build a wall and have Mexico pay for it, but instead had our military pay for it (under the pretense of an emergency that he admitted wasn't actually an emergency), and then never actually built it but lied and claimed he did?
Oh, and the foreign "policy" that had Republicans fighting him almost every step of the way, because it basically consisted of hissy fits with our allies (not to mention the military brass) to keep them from "screwing us over", coupled with capitulation to foreign autocrats who wrote him love letters and stroked his combover? Ask Ted Cruz what he thinks about the "policy" of wanting to pull us out of NATO or having Russia rejoin the G7.
Trump doesn't have "policies". He has pretenses, personal ambitions, and psychological tendencies regulated by intestinal disturbances. His presidency was a seat-of-his-pants work of improvisation as the Republican party repeatedly attempted to harness and control his energy and steer it toward their own ends, with diminishing levels of success as Trump learned how to game the system. That's why the RNC hasn't drafted an actual platform since bending the knee to him - what's the point of making policy promises when you're in thrall to a voter base whose only real policy goal is producing liberal tears? Writing down policy goals just makes it harder to shift the goalposts later on and bullshit justifications for Trump's mercurial behavior. After all, as far as the Republican Party is concerned, there is only one real "policy" goal - to remain in power.
Is there anything more amusing than listening to Republicans talk about Trump's "policies"?
Remember when Trump campaigned as the "law and order" candidate? He nominates a brontosaurus for AG who starts seeking maximum sentences and nullifying consent decrees, then when his poll numbers are in the crapper along comes a wonderful piece of popular, bipartisan reform legislation for him to sign, the crafting and passing of which he had nothing to do with, and voila! Now he's the criminal justice reform president!
How about when he sounded like a progressive reformer on healthcare, promising that after killing the ACA they were going to cover everyone - despite the fact that one of the principal complaints about the ACA was its mandate for everyone to be insured? After being forced to confront that he has no idea what he's doing when it comes to healthcare (nobody could have known how hard it would be!) he settles into a pattern of undermining the existing healthcare markets while having his lawyers seek to remove requirements to cover pre-existing conditions - all while lying and saying he's working to protect them. Then later on he declares that the Republican party will be the "party of healthcare", teasing the media with non-existent yet soon-to-be-revealed proposals that are totally in the works right now ...
Oh, or when he pretended that he was all about taxing the rich and then passed a tax bill that was a giant gift to the wealthy? Or said he was going to build a wall and have Mexico pay for it, but instead had our military pay for it (under the pretense of an emergency that he admitted wasn't actually an emergency), and then never actually built it but lied and claimed he did?
Oh, and the foreign "policy" that had Republicans fighting him almost every step of the way, because it basically consisted of hissy fits with our allies (not to mention the military brass) to keep them from "screwing us over", coupled with capitulation to foreign autocrats who wrote him love letters and stroked his combover? Ask Ted Cruz what he thinks about the "policy" of wanting to pull us out of NATO or having Russia rejoin the G7.
Trump doesn't have "policies". He has pretenses, personal ambitions, and psychological tendencies regulated by intestinal disturbances. His presidency was a seat-of-his-pants work of improvisation as the Republican party repeatedly attempted to harness and control his energy and steer it toward their own ends, with diminishing levels of success as Trump learned how to game the system. That's why the RNC hasn't drafted an actual platform since bending the knee to him - what's the point of making policy promises when you're in thrall to a voter base whose only real policy goal is producing liberal tears? Writing down policy goals just makes it harder to shift the goalposts later on and bullshit justifications for Trump's mercurial behavior. After all, as far as the Republican Party is concerned, there is only one real "policy" goal - to remain in power.