The title, tongue in cheek, refers to the fact that too many voters vote on the basis of personal likes or dislikes of the candidate, when policies are really the only legitimate basis for voting for President.
Trump if the only legitimate choice, based not on personal traits, but on achievements. And that brings me to Conrad Black’s book,
Black writes:
1.”Those who oppose Trump generally do not understand how desperate and disgusted almost half of Americans are at the most inept twenty-year streak of presidential misgovernment in American history that preceded the 2016 election. These decades of fruitless war, bone- cracking recession, humanitarian disasters, collapsing alliances, oceanic deficits, and the erosion of economic growth and private sector industrial investment to a third or a quarter of levels under Ronald Reagan, could rattle any American’s patriotic self-confidence.
2. Trump is a throw- back to Reagan in that he rejects the chic defeatism of the establishment; and despite all the media and Democratic Party and Never-Trump calumny of him, his political program is essentially conventional, moderate, conservative wisdom lifted in large part from the policy recommendations of thoroughly respectable conservative think tanks such as the Heritage Foundation. Trump speaks to Americans fearful of decline. He wants, as his slogan says, to make America great again.
3. … those unaffected by the decline of America, that decline was invisible; to those who were affected by it, it is a challenge and a constant fear for their own welfare and national pride. The Democrats have had no policy for some years except to denigrate their opponents, and try to bribe and anesthetize a comatose lumpenproletariat addicted to state benefit. Their nomination of Hillary Clinton showed that they did not realize how many Americans rejected this vision of America.”
And along came Trump.
4. “With heavy interventions from the White House, Trump’s tax reductions and reforms inched through both Houses of Congress, were slightly modified, went to reconciliation, and were adopted. Corporate taxes were cut to 21 percent, most Americans were left off the federal income tax rolls, and more than 80 percent of those who remained would see their taxes reduced. Tax forms would be highly simplified, and American companies were given incentives to return up to three trillion dollars of overseas profits to the United States.”
But wait…..
….there’s more!
Trump if the only legitimate choice, based not on personal traits, but on achievements. And that brings me to Conrad Black’s book,
Black writes:
1.”Those who oppose Trump generally do not understand how desperate and disgusted almost half of Americans are at the most inept twenty-year streak of presidential misgovernment in American history that preceded the 2016 election. These decades of fruitless war, bone- cracking recession, humanitarian disasters, collapsing alliances, oceanic deficits, and the erosion of economic growth and private sector industrial investment to a third or a quarter of levels under Ronald Reagan, could rattle any American’s patriotic self-confidence.
2. Trump is a throw- back to Reagan in that he rejects the chic defeatism of the establishment; and despite all the media and Democratic Party and Never-Trump calumny of him, his political program is essentially conventional, moderate, conservative wisdom lifted in large part from the policy recommendations of thoroughly respectable conservative think tanks such as the Heritage Foundation. Trump speaks to Americans fearful of decline. He wants, as his slogan says, to make America great again.
3. … those unaffected by the decline of America, that decline was invisible; to those who were affected by it, it is a challenge and a constant fear for their own welfare and national pride. The Democrats have had no policy for some years except to denigrate their opponents, and try to bribe and anesthetize a comatose lumpenproletariat addicted to state benefit. Their nomination of Hillary Clinton showed that they did not realize how many Americans rejected this vision of America.”
And along came Trump.
4. “With heavy interventions from the White House, Trump’s tax reductions and reforms inched through both Houses of Congress, were slightly modified, went to reconciliation, and were adopted. Corporate taxes were cut to 21 percent, most Americans were left off the federal income tax rolls, and more than 80 percent of those who remained would see their taxes reduced. Tax forms would be highly simplified, and American companies were given incentives to return up to three trillion dollars of overseas profits to the United States.”
But wait…..
….there’s more!
