Good things about the Trump presidency

[temporal1]

Yes - I would say this is his best legacy.

Me too.

I feel some of the legacy rightfully belongs with Bush and Bush Jr (as painful as it is to type those words out), who nominated Justice Thomas who has become a quite notable jurist.

don’t be too dismayed, W nominated the disappointment that is John Roberts.

[temporal1]

OP, Page 1

I’ve heard many people say specific things they don’t like, such as dishonesty, morals, etc.
I also hear people allude that there are things they like.

What are some of the specific things you like about Trump, or his policies, or his administration etc.?
Especially things that you think may be unique to this administration vs other Republicans.

I am currently overseas and was asked by a taxi driver this question.

What do you like about Trump?

[Ken]

OP, Page 1

I’ve heard many people say specific things they don’t like, such as dishonesty, morals, etc.
I also hear people allude that there are things they like.

What are some of the specific things you like about Trump, or his policies, or his administration etc.?
Especially things that you think may be unique to this administration vs other Republicans.

I am currently overseas and was asked by a taxi driver this question.

What do you like about Trump?

He got the ball rolling to get us out of Afghanistan.

[Valerie]

Seems worthy of consideration

https://www.americanthinker.com/article ... trump.html

[joshuabgood]

Trump led to Roe v. Wade bring over turned.

Yes - I would say this is his best legacy.

I think Mitch McConnell's shrewdness politically also deserves quite a bit of this credit. Neil Gorsuch would never have been a jurist otherwise and good chance the not the other two either.

[RZehr]

Like It or Not: Here’s 5 Good Things About Trump’s Presidency

https://www.yahoo.com/news/not-5-good-t ... 58340.html
1. It brought balance, autonomy, and common sense back to U.S. foreign policy. Among other things, I believe it achieved this by moving the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, pulling the United States out of the Iranian nuclear deal, and demanding that NATO countries pony up enough money to cover the organization’s expenses and their own defense costs. He also pulled out of the Paris Agreement on climate change, defying global warming alarmists, and began a dialogue with North Korea about ending its nuclear weapons program.

2. It went to war against the establishments of both political parties, each of which had become self-serving and disconnected from their own voters. Politics is all about winning, and public service has become solely about being re-elected—which Trump failed to do, despite his claims to the contrary. But the trend is to break promises and pursue policies that run counter to the best interests of one’s constituents. Trump did plenty of that, but he also challenged orthodoxies, going over the heads of the Washington, D.C. pooh-bahs and speaking directly to the masses. And the masses were receptive—until they weren’t.

3. It rankled the elitists and brought coastal elitism to the surface. And it revealed what a lot of us already knew: There are whole swaths of America that look down on the rest of America in an ugly way. It’s a kind of cultural supremacy where it is believed that the “best” people are the smartest, the most sophisticated, the most well-read, the most “woke.” Suddenly, Trump was being criticized for putting ketchup on his steak and for consuming fast food. Dealing with all of this elite sentiment was unpleasant, but Americans needed to do it.

4. It smoked the liberal media out of their holes by provoking them to the point where journalists showed their true agenda: to topple Trump. With Trump in the White House, many journalists jumped into the arena with both feet. The New York Times ran an anonymous op-ed. The Washington Post kept a tally of Trump lies. The worst offender was CNN, where anchors bickered with Trump officials and reporters made themselves the story by aggressively debating Trump at press conferences.

5. While implementing immigration policies that were dishonest, racist, unfair, cruel, and punitive—many of which have now been co-opted by the Biden administration—Trump’s presidency did nonetheless manage to bring immigration to the front page and make it a central part of the national discourse. Pre-Trump, immigration often seemed like it was only a big issue for those of us who live in border states like California, Arizona, and Texas. Now, thanks to Trump, as Republicans like to say, every state is a border state.

[Robert]

While implementing immigration policies that were dishonest, racist, unfair, cruel, and punitive

Well, that is real fair and balanced wording and and reporting. Shutting down ILLEGAL immigration is none of these things.

[temporal1]

Rome had Caligula.
i’m not sure ordinary citizens voted for him and all his indulgences.
voting for it would infer added complicity. no?

.. as an aside, i appreciated how DJT did not see the need to recognize Pride in a dedicated month.
he didn’t ban it. it didn’t go away. he saw no need to institutionalize it.

other than for purposes of bullying, what’s the point?

i appreciated this.
It was level-headed and fair, generous, tolerant, a nod to “equal justice for all,” not creation of Super-Citizens.

This should be The Gold Standard for U.S. policies: Under human law, “Equal,” not “Special.”

Esp in obama’s 2nd term, and now in biden’s 3rd term in The U.S. White House .. Caligula would be pleased.

[temporal1]

Ambitious

“Donald Trump Unveils Free Speech Policy Plan to ‘Shatter Left-Wing Censorship Regime’ “
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022 ... ip-regime/

The 45th president shared a video to his Truth Social account where he details a number of policy steps he would enact, if elected president, to prohibit censorship by government agencies and big tech companies.

These plans include revising Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, establishing a cooling-off period requiring former employees of the FBI, CIA, and other government agencies to wait seven years before joining tech companies that have “vast quantities of U.S. user data,” and establishing a “digital bill of rights,” among several other actions.

Trump laid out five steps he plans to take to secure free speech:

First,
within hours of my inauguration, I will sign an executive order banning any federal department or agency from colluding with any organization, business, or person to censor, limit, categorize, or impede the lawful speech of American citizens. I will then ban federal money from being used to label domestic speech as “mis-” or “disinformation.” And I will begin the process of identifying and firing every federal bureaucrat who has engaged in domestic censorship, directly or indirectly, whether they are the Department of Homeland security, the Department of Health and Human Services, the FBI, the DOJ — no matter who they are.

Second,
I will order the Department of Justice to investigate all parties involved in the new online censorship regime, which is absolutely destructive and terrible, and to aggressively prosecute any and all crimes identified. These include possible violations of federal civil rights law, campaign finance laws, federal election law, securities law and anti-trust laws, the Hatch Act and a host of other potential criminal, civil, regulatory, and constitutional offenses. To assist in these efforts, I am urging House Republicans to immediately send preservation letters, and we have to do this right now, to the Biden Administration, the Biden campaign, and every Silicon Valley tech giant, ordering them not to destroy evidence of censorship.

Third,
upon my inauguration as president I will ask Congress to send a bill to my desk revising Section 230, to get big online platforms out of censorship business. From now on, digital platforms should only qualify for immunity protection under Section 230 if they meet high standards of neutrality, transparency, fairness, and nondiscrimination. We should require these platforms to increase their efforts to take down unlawful content such as child exploitation and promoting terrorism, while dramatically curtailing their power to arbitrarily restrict lawful speech.

Fourth,
we need to break up the entire toxic censorship industry that has arisen under the false guise of tackling so called “mis-” and “disinformation.” The federal government should immediately stop funding all nonprofits and academic programs that support this authoritarian project. If any U.S. university is discovered to have engaged in censorship activities or election interference in the past, such as flagging social media content for removal or blacklisting, those universities should lose federal research dollars and federal student loan support for a period of five years and maybe more.

We should also enact new laws laying out clear criminal penalties for federal bureaucrats who partner with private entities to do an end-run around the constitution and deprive Americans of their First, Fourth, and Fifth Amendment rights — in other words, deprive them of them of their vote. And once you lose those elections, and once you lose your borders like we have, you no longer have a country. Furthermore, to confront the problems of major platforms being infiltrated by legions of former deep staters and intelligence officials, there should be a seven-year cooling off period before any employee of the FBI, CIA, NSA, DNI, DHS, or DOD is allowed to take a job at a company possessing vast quantities of U.S. user data.

Fifth,
the time has finally come for Congress to pass a digital bill of rights. This should include a right to digital due process. In other words, government officials should need a court order to take down online content, not send information requests such as the FBI was sending to Twitter. Furthermore, when users of big online platforms have their content or accounts removed, throttled, shadowbanned, or otherwise restricted no matter what name they use, they should have the right to be informed that it’s happening, the right to a specific explanation of the reason why, and the right to a timely appeal. In addition, all users over the age of 18 should have the right to opt out of content moderation and curation entirely and receive an unmanipulated stream of information if they so choose.

He concluded by calling the “fight for free speech” a “matter of victory or death for America and the survival of Western Civilization itself.”

“When I’m president, this whole rotten system of censorship and information control will be ripped out of the system at large,” he added. “There won’t be anything left.”

[JimFoxvog]

At first glance, without looking at analysis from knowledgeable people, this one part seems to make sense:

Furthermore, to confront the problems of major platforms being infiltrated by legions of former deep staters and intelligence officials, there should be a seven-year cooling off period before any employee of the FBI, CIA, NSA, DNI, DHS, or DOD is allowed to take a job at a company possessing vast quantities of U.S. user data.