DGS49
Diamond Member
A week or so ago, I caught a 30 second snippet of the Dennis Prager radio program. He has apparently asked his audience if they could come up with a better slogan than "MAGA" for the remaining months of this election campaign. A guy called in and suggested the title at the top of this thread, to wit, Things Were Better With Trump.
The more I think about it, the more I'm convinced that that fellow was on to something. Things were indeed better under Trump. Consider:
The more I think about it, the more I'm convinced that that fellow was on to something. Things were indeed better under Trump. Consider:
- Interest rates were low,
- Inflation was down,
- Energy costs were low,
- Federal revenues were increasing andcontinue creeping up as a result of the "Trump tax cuts",
- Unemployment, and in particular Black and Hispanic unemployment were low,
- Iran was suffering mightily under Trump's sanctions,
- The Abraham Accords were establishing excellent, unprecedented relationships between Israel and other Middle Eastern Countries,
- Our NATO allies were starting to meet their prior commitments on Defense Spending (which they had been ignoring),
- Immigration was better controlled than it had been in decades
- Putin was too intimidated to start any new mischief,
- No significant terrorist attacks against the U.S. or its interests,
- No hostages taken by Muslim extremists or Russia.