President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

Carter was, like a couple of others, cast into the position at a no-win time.

 

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The thing I've heard from Trump supporters about the first item is "Career politicians have messed up the country. How could he do worse?"

That he's a businessman, and in some people's minds a successful one, made him qualified. They saw a guy who was going to come in, kick ass and get results.

 

I lost count of the examples.

 

Does anyone see North Korea, Russia or China being a afraid of us?

 

It just shows how many voters are stupid.

 

Not stupid. Racist, nasty and uninformed.

 

Is it me, or does this seem like just about the one thing the President could do that might actually get him impeached and possibly even convicted? Challenging Congress's power seems like a good way to create bipartisan momentum to get him out of office.

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Countries that are "afraid" of other countries are more apt to do stupid things.

Like build 30,000+ nuclear weapons.

 

All depends on how you define the word "good," or how long of a view that you take. It's en vogue on both sides of the aisle to call Clinton a "good" president, but can't you trace a number the issues that we currently consider "bad" back to his policies? Allowing Russia to turn into a kleptocracy and thus facilitating the rise of Putin and the mafioso state. NAFTA/globalization, which had as much to do with the rise of Trump as anything. A complete underestimation of the threat of radical Islam. Wall Street deregulation. Sure, if being a good president is synonymous with life being good when he happens to be in office, then Clinton was a good president. I think the historians, at least the popular ones, tend to equate being a good president with being a good statesman. Clinton fit that bill as well. But it seems like the wisdom of an administration's policies should carry considerable weight.

Just using Clinton as a for-instance. The economy sucked under Carter and he failed his major "crisis" moments. But a lot of presidents other than Carter had a bigger hand in turning the world into the way it is now, with economic inequality at all-time highs, infrastructure crumbling, immigration a huge problem, the deterioration of the working class job base, the healthcare system a complete mess, and two huge foreign policy issues in radical islam and Russia that could have been dramatically mitigated with just a little bit of foresight.