(07-05-2022, 07:43 AM)Sneakers Wrote:

(07-04-2022, 04:19 PM)mikesez Wrote: Trump didn't really have any policies except the tax cut and moving a US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jersualem.  He enacted some tariffs which were not very high and easily circumvented by shipping product through unsanctioned countries like the Philippines. 
Look at the homework assignments that Congress has:
Updating the Voting Rights Act (did you know there are no federal standards for mail in voting? Seems important!)
Updating the Federal communications Act (remember section 230?)
Updating the Environmental protection act
Updating immigration policy (where's the wall?)

He just couldn't get it done, even with his majorities.  And instead of being smart, and having a coherent plan to get more members of Congress who agreed with a certain policy he actually wanted to implement, he simply endorsed whicher candidate was most obsequious to him, and he never explained to anyone how he wanted any of these things done, so even all these people he got elected with bootlicking loyalty pledges didn't know what they were supposed to do. And he obviously didn’t get enough of them, because Pelosi became Speaker in 2019.  And he had absolutely no understanding of how primary elections were more likely to work against his goals as for them, and how they also need to be updated. 

Trump was a very ineffective President.  The one nice thing I'll say is Biden is shaping up to be equally ineffective. 

Neither man seems to understand the times.

Construction of the wall (apparently one of Trump's forgotten accomplishments) was halted by Biden in his first week in office.  Biden is worse than ineffective, he's destructive.

Right.  The construction was extremely slow and now it's over and nowhere near complete.
Why?
Because it didn't pass Congress as a budget item.  Trump couldn't persuade Congress to do what he thought needed to be done.  Then he couldn't win a second term.  If Congress had mandated the spending, the construction might be ongoing today, and perhaps done.

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