Trump was never hard to figure out. While his narcissism and ego may in part have driven him to run for president, far more important was his sense that the country was mired in stagnation and frequent self-inficted miseries, and that his own unorthodox theories about overregulated business, Chinese cheating, European free-riding and mercantile trade policies, and overregulation would allow American free-market capitalism to lift the country out of self-induced lethargy.So far, “his own unorthodox theories” seem to be working very well. What say we give them another four-year trial?
Monday, August 26, 2019
Hanson Explains Trump
See a well-written column which unabashedly defends President Trump, and along the way bashes those who fantasize about his supposed monstrous shortcomings. Historian Victor Davis Hanson writes at American Greatness to. one by one, demolish the various anti-Trump tropes. His conclusion: