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I totally agree with this Ed in the WSJ and have consistently written Trump is his own worst enemy. He goes out of his way to be insulting, boorish. and to offend. This costs him unnecessary votes.
I have also written, many times, I separate his words from his policies and realize some cannot do that and the Trump Haters certainly will not. That is a tragic shame.
That said, in a succinct way, I will state six reasons why everyone,who cares about America and what we have and can lose, should vote for Trump even holding their nose. After all the stench emanating from the opposition's side is far worse and more dangerous.
Why Trump:
A) If you have read Gramm's analysis the wage disparity is more myth than fact and Trump's tax plan, that was passed along with the red tape that was cut, are two reasons why the economy is doing well, very well.
B) Trump has willingly touched the third rail when it comes to penalizing trade policies and that is another reason why our economic future will be brighter.( Pelosi does not want Trump to have a victory so she is thwarting a vote on the trade policy that replaces NAFTA when Canada and Mexico are ready to sign.)
C) Trump favors and is working to bolster American energy independence and this goes a long way toward reducing our dependence on unreliable sources.This is also important from a military standpoint.
D)If you have read Hanson, Trump has a strategic plan regarding our avoiding nation building and unending wars. He has also bolstered military spending so we are capable of doing what is necessary without a lot of troops on the ground presence.
E) All of the above inter-relate, proves Trump is no fool and actually is far ahead of his detractors in making common sense decisions that lead to making America more capable and, if you want to use his metaphor: "Makes American Great Again."
F) Trump seeks to change our immigration laws and make them saner, encourages those to apply who are beneficial to our society and,in seeking these changes, he is doing so by embracing the rule of law and making America safer.
Yes, dirty mouth is my choice and should be yours if you want an America that is economically strong, where employment is significantly improved, job opportunities abound, our borders are being protected, we are returning to embrace the rule of law and out future has all the appearance of being brighter.
If you want to undo what Trump has accomplished and wreck our nation in the process, then vote for whomever radical Democrats finally select and duck when the consequences hit the fan!
And:
Flipping Virginia demonstrates two things:
A) The mass media can bury black face antics and are more than willing to help lying politicians.
B) Government workers live in Virginia and love to keep their bread buttered.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++I have also written, many times, I separate his words from his policies and realize some cannot do that and the Trump Haters certainly will not. That is a tragic shame.
That said, in a succinct way, I will state six reasons why everyone,who cares about America and what we have and can lose, should vote for Trump even holding their nose. After all the stench emanating from the opposition's side is far worse and more dangerous.
Why Trump:
A) If you have read Gramm's analysis the wage disparity is more myth than fact and Trump's tax plan, that was passed along with the red tape that was cut, are two reasons why the economy is doing well, very well.
B) Trump has willingly touched the third rail when it comes to penalizing trade policies and that is another reason why our economic future will be brighter.( Pelosi does not want Trump to have a victory so she is thwarting a vote on the trade policy that replaces NAFTA when Canada and Mexico are ready to sign.)
C) Trump favors and is working to bolster American energy independence and this goes a long way toward reducing our dependence on unreliable sources.This is also important from a military standpoint.
D)If you have read Hanson, Trump has a strategic plan regarding our avoiding nation building and unending wars. He has also bolstered military spending so we are capable of doing what is necessary without a lot of troops on the ground presence.
E) All of the above inter-relate, proves Trump is no fool and actually is far ahead of his detractors in making common sense decisions that lead to making America more capable and, if you want to use his metaphor: "Makes American Great Again."
F) Trump seeks to change our immigration laws and make them saner, encourages those to apply who are beneficial to our society and,in seeking these changes, he is doing so by embracing the rule of law and making America safer.
Yes, dirty mouth is my choice and should be yours if you want an America that is economically strong, where employment is significantly improved, job opportunities abound, our borders are being protected, we are returning to embrace the rule of law and out future has all the appearance of being brighter.
If you want to undo what Trump has accomplished and wreck our nation in the process, then vote for whomever radical Democrats finally select and duck when the consequences hit the fan!
And:
Flipping Virginia demonstrates two things:
A) The mass media can bury black face antics and are more than willing to help lying politicians.
B) Government workers live in Virginia and love to keep their bread buttered.
1)
The Anti-Republican Trend
The GOP loses voters in the suburbs for the third election in a row.
For the third election in a row Republicans have lost voters in the suburbs. If the GOP wants to win in 2020, a new strategy is needed to change this turnout trend in metro areas.
Democrats watched to their dismay as the political reaction to Barack Obama’s polarizing governance cost them the House, most governorships and state legislatures, and finally the Senate and the White House. Republicans are now experiencing the reverse effect under President Trump, as they learned again Tuesday amid more Democratic victories in off-year elections.
Democrats flipped the state House of Delegates and Senate in Virginia, which means they will control the entire state government for the first time in 25 years. They also appear to have won the governorship in Kentucky, though the Republican hasn’t conceded, and they came closer than they should have to winning the governorship in conservative Mississippi (losing by 5.6% compared to 34% in 2015).
Worse than the defeats for Republicans is the voting trend, which continued the suburban losses of 2017 and 2018 that cost them control of the U.S. House. In Virginia they could in the past overcome their deficits near Washington, D.C., with gains downstate. But now their losses extend to the suburbs around Richmond and the state’s southeast.
Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin was crushed in the Louisville (99,000 votes) and Lexington (36,000) metro areas. Mr. Bevin lost the Lexington area by only 10,000 in 2015 and around Louisville by 38,000. But turnout statewide this year was up about 50% from 2015, as Democrats showed again that they are highly motivated in the Trump era.
This turnout trend has now continued for three Novembers, and Republicans who try to explain it away are fooling themselves. The GOP under Mr. Trump is losing more college-educated suburban voters, especially women, than it is gaining rural voters or working-class former Democrats.
Tuesday’s vote wasn’t a straight referendum on Mr. Trump, who wasn’t on the ballot, but in Kentucky it was a referendum on the Trump governing style. Mr. Bevin shot from the lip and campaigned on cultural issues like immigration, abortion and political correctness. The state’s 4.4% unemployment rate wasn’t enough to overcome his personal unpopularity.
Democrat Andrew Beshear, the son of a former Governor, ran a centrist campaign that avoided talking about Mr. Trump and mobilized teachers unions with promises of pay raises. Mr. Trump campaigned for Mr. Bevin on election eve and rallied some GOP voters, but these days Mr. Trump is a double-edged turnout sword.
The governing consequences will be most severe in Virginia, where the GOP was outspent as the national left, led by Mike Bloomberg’s gun-control operation, poured in millions of dollars. Democrats will use their new majorities to move the state left on spending, a higher minimum wage, gun regulation, mandates for renewable energy and public unions.
Virginia Democrats received an assist this year from federal judges who redrew the legislative map after liberal groups said they were racially gerrymandered. The Supreme Court declined on a 5-4 vote to let the GOP House of Delegates defend its map on appeal. Democrats will try to gerrymander state legislative and U.S. House districts after the 2020 census to cement their majorities for a decade. Do not wait for complaints about this from the Washington Post or former Attorney General Eric Holder, whose group only opposes gerrymanders that favor Republicans.
These results forecast nothing definitive about 2020, though the anti-GOP trend of three years should worry the White House. Mr. Trump won in 2016 on an inside straight in the Electoral College, and he has never had a job approval rating above 50% despite a good economy. His divisive rhetoric on immigration and so much more may thrill his base but it alienates others. His approval rating with white college-educated women in particular is dreadful—34% in the latest WSJ-NBC poll.
The fair judgment a year from Election Day in 2020 is that Mr. Trump is highly vulnerable in his bid for a second term. He could benefit if the economy rebounds from its recent 2% rate of growth, and perhaps Democrats bent on impeachment will overreach. But Mr. Trump may need Democrats to nominate an opponent whose agenda is far enough to the left to scare suburban voters who are tired of the daily melodrama of the Trump Presidency.
Senate Republicans know this, and they know their majority is also at risk. They can’t win merely by turning out the Trump base. The GOP needs a strategy and agenda to regain support in the suburbs or they will lose the House, the White House and the Senate in 2020.
1a) Has Elizabeth Warren Wrecked the Left?
The Warren Medicare for All plan shows that progressivism is undeliverable pie in the sky.
The fallout from the release of Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s Medicare for All plan is the biggest event so far in the 2020 presidential campaign. It’s big enough that Sen. Warren’s campaign may have buckled beneath the weight of her plan’s fantastic details. But it might be bigger than that. The Warren meltdown could prove to be the Democratic left’s Chernobyl, a lasting catastrophe.
In 2016, capitalizing on socialist Bernie Sanders’s strong performance in the primaries against Hillary Clinton, the organized left muscled the Democratic establishment out of the picture and captured the party’s levers of power and its ideological direction.
Recall earlier this year what happened when the party’s presidential candidates began their 2020 runs. Bernie was back, and in short order the progressives put down an array of policy markers and litmus tests—Medicare for All, the Green New Deal, free public college tuition, forgiveness of student debt.
The astonishing thing then wasn’t Bernie bellowing about Medicare for All or even Ms. Warren waving it forward. More surprising was how quickly more “moderate” Democrats, such as Sens. Kamala Harris and Cory Booker, saluted the left’s agenda. Both signed on to a Green New Deal resolution introduced in February by the left-wing social-media influencer Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Recall also how the American Action Forum estimated that the Green New Deal, including its “social justice” policies, could cost $51 trillion to $93 trillion between 2020 and 2029. No matter. The bended-knee obeisances of the Democratic presidential candidates to most of this stuff were a testament to the progressive left’s ascendancy.
Then Elizabeth Warren began to introduce her “plans.” In retrospect, the purpose of her incredible policy detail seems clear: She would be competing with Mr. Sanders in the same lane for progressive primary voters. To distinguish herself from Bernie’s mystical left-wing status, Ms. Warren offered a welter of progressive policy detail.
Her schools plan, for instance, is a paint-by-numbers Valentine to the progressive-controlled teachers unions, a force in producing party voter turnout. She promised to “quadruple” federal spending on education, to $800 billion over a decade. (You almost have to admire a candidate who vows to quadruple spending.) This came after her $1.07 trillion “universal child-care” plan.
Somehow Ms. Warren was slipping by with all this maxed-out progressivism, including kid-glove media profiles—until last week and the release of her Medicare for All plan. Uh-oh.
So this is what nationalized health care looks like. We knew that half the U.S. population—some 177 million people—would lose their private insurance. Now we find out that federalized health care would cost nearly $52 trillion over 10 years, paid for by myriad bureaucratic “savings” and new taxes. There’d be a new Employer Medicare Contribution (i.e., a tax) plus an annual tax on the unrealized capital gains of the “wealthiest,” plus a threat to abrogate drug companies’ patents if they don’t comply with federal price controls. Doctors, some warned, might leave the profession.
If costs outpace economic growth (and they would), “I will use available policy tools, which include global budgets, population-based budgets and automatic rate reductions to bring it back in line.” The left may never forgive Elizabeth Warren for releasing all this detail.
Ms. Warren has let the cat out of the bag: Progressivism is basically undeliverable pie in the sky. Indeed, by stringing together in detail so many progressive wish lists, she has made clear how difficult, if not impossible, it is for them to survive the most basic tests of political or fiscal plausibility.
Mr. Sanders has always understood this, which is why he has risen by never offering anything more substantive than the wings and prayers of his stirring stump speech. His pitch to millennials and white gentry liberals is wholly emotional.
No wonder Ms. Ocasio-Cortez chose to endorse Bernie. Like him, AOC knows the progressive enterprise is about sailing into power on a river of aspirational rhetoric.
In the wake of Ms. Warren’s plan reveal, it just got a lot harder for the party’s presidential candidates to dismiss or duck questions about the price tag for their spending policies. Surely this is why Nancy Pelosi, a self-described woman of the left, warned this week: “What works in San Francisco does not necessarily work in Michigan.”
The party’s “moderate” candidates—Joe Biden, Amy Klobuchar and the reimagined Pete Buttigieg—have been criticizing Ms. Warren’s health-care plan, but whether they will separate themselves from the party’s dreamland left remains to be seen.
President Trump has been telling audiences: You may or may not like me, but you’re going to have to vote for me to avoid the Democrats destroying the gains in your 401(k). It’s not a bad line. Now Mr. Trump can say—finally: Don’t take my word for it. Read for yourself what’s in the Democratic “plan” after he’s gone.
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