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Klavan is right. 2017 was the year conservatives busted a move!
I don’t know. Legislation isn’t everything, there is always voter interpretation and that involves media-driven perceptions…which of course can eventually reverse who is in power. For example, David Brooks on tonight’s PBS News Hour called Trump “an albatross” and claimed that the Republican party is in profound disarray. Brooks is supposed to be giving opinions but there are similar and constant depictions that many who don’t dig deeper will absorb as fact.
Of course Mark Shields of the same program when discussing the tax plan had to insert the (suddenly useful) liberal concern about our bad deficit as if it only started in the economic meltdown. Neither the moderator nor Brooks thought to ask would Democrats ever consider the most direct help = a few spending cuts? Since we know they won’t, what other ideas are there to reverse the red ink (since the “stimulus” hardly made a dent in economic growth)?
The public has to take in a variety of sources to hear anything at all even-handed, and most don’t. People were also treated to years of Obama adoration. However, a serious segment of voters deviated from the press assumption of the election outcome; so maybe there is some mystery swirling around out there.
it’s a beginning but we have 51 Administrative states to dismantle and it’s more difficult to dismantle things than to build them. There are unintended consequences to dismantling as well and we’ll need several administrations worth of serious people to make real progress. We’ve yet to fix the educational system which is key to most things. The media, foundations, entertainment industries are all in the hands of unserious people, and one of the parties is not only unserious they are profoundly dishonest. As a result our youth are also unserious, nihilistic, intellectually and morally flabby. So we’re better off materially because we’ve been a rich country for a long time and are living off momentum, and we got rid of Obama but we’ll be dealing with the damage he did to race relations, education, and the US role in the world for many years to come. Moreover material prosperity is a by product not the purpose of sound policy.
Which we’ll never get.
Great episode. Listen every day.
No, this is not the best day ever. Obamacare is still law, the Senate is evenly split, the culture wars are lost and more Millenials believe in socialism than in capitalism.
The Conservatives’ best day ever was the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, 1986.
Just imagine if Trump were an albatross. Forget the tweets – look out below!
Malcolm Reynolds’ “As I recall, an albatross was good luck until someone killed it.”
I don’t know if this has been the best year ever for conservatives. Intuitively I doubt that (Obamacare should have been overturned), but it has been pretty darn good. I am really pleased with the Trump presidency. He needs to continue his effort to limit immigration, continue his pro-business policies, entice American businesses back, continue to contain abortion policies, overturn all the anti-religious policies of the previous administration, and continue to squash Islamism (the biggest enemy to freedom) across the world, both through policy and rhetoric.