Donald Trump's policies

[Tuga Nation's Dragon]

More than 2 years after taking office, what's your opinion on Trump's policies so far? Are you in favor or against? Leave your comment below!

[Jabberwocky]

A comment would be insufficient for the worst president in history, and a worse human

[Tanzoria]

What is there even to say at this point that has not already been said? Idiotic, destructive, authoritarian, corrupt, racist, immoral, cruel.

[Witchcraft and Sorcery]

In the case of a president, I would say that this is a very broad question and does not cover the individual nuances that a president's policies and positions are required to.

But I don't use that word for Donald Trump. I have no desire to give him the respect and dignity that comes with that office because he lost it before he was even elected. He thrives on hate, fear, division, and idiocy. He cares more about himself and his business than even doing a good job. He doesn't hardly do any work at all. He uses the courts as his political battleground and his cronies construct racist, hate-filled, self-aggrandizing policies designed to oppress and marginalize anyone who isn't a rich white straight cisgender Christian male.

Oh, and did you notice how he called Michael Cohen a rat? You know who else calls people who cooperate with the law rats? Crime bosses. The Mafia. People who have something to hide. This administration is not only dangerous politically, it's criminal. And it's going to take indisputable criminal charges to put him away because there is no way the Senate will vote to remove him from office if and when impeachment proceedings are introduced otherwise.

Mayor Pete Buttigieg, who is currently the front-runner for my vote in the Democratic primary, said it like this regarding impeachment though and I agree with him. I'd rather see the people reject him soundly than a politicized impeachment proceeding. The only time I can see an impeachment being correct is if there is something incontrovertibly wrong that Congress morally and legally cannot ignore. Otherwise it's best if the people overwhelmingly reject him in 2020.

[Tuga Nation's Dragon]

The thing is, he has lobbies and lots of other interests behind him... And there are lots of Americans (specially on the south) who agree with his "twisted vision" of things... Don't count on him loosing the next election... It is something you cannot take for granted, unfortunately...

[Witchcraft and Sorcery]

I'm certainly not taking it for granted. I'm well aware that the electoral college as an institution is strongly slanted to favor right-leaning, low-population states. One vote in Wyoming, North Dakota or Montana, for example, represents a much larger fraction of an electoral vote than does a voter in a state like California, Illinois, New York, etc.

This is why Mitch McConnell described HR 1 as a "Democratic power grab." The people who vote most often are older, well-off white people.

In all of this, we need to remember that the majority of the voting population voted against Trump. It was the structure of our government that allowed the will of the people to be overruled. The electoral college is silly, it's undemocratic, and it needs to go. Twice in my lifetime this has happened and I don't know that I could stomach a third.

[Louisistan]

Mar 13, 2019 7:21:18 GMT -5 Witchcraft and Sorcery said:

I'm certainly not taking it for granted. I'm well aware that the electoral college as an institution is strongly slanted to favor right-leaning, low-population states. One vote in Wyoming, North Dakota or Montana, for example, represents a much larger fraction of an electoral vote than does a voter in a state like California, Illinois, New York, etc

I don't believe that the electoral college is slanted to favor right-leaning states. It is slanted to favour low-population states, yes. But that would be the case even if those states were left-leaning.

As a European, I'm still in disbelief about the entire 2016 presidential race. Starting with the fact that all major candidates are unbelievably old (Trump, Clinton and Sanders). Continuing with the tone and vile with which campaigns were lead and ending with the fact that Donald Trump managed to be elected President. Everything about it has been hard to wrap my head around.

As for Donald Trump's policies: Above all, I deem them to be incredibly simplistic. They display a linear thinking on Trump's part: Illegal immigrants cross the border? Build a wall. He does not seem to grasp the fact that complex systems have no trivial solutions. He likes to paint himself as a businessman, but honestly, the only business in which he could have thrived was real estate. Because any business that is involved in any sort of research, development or engineering will face complex problems which require experimentation and root cause analysis. Trump likes to apply band-aids to symptoms instead of fixing root causes. To some extent this is not unusal in politicans, but it's rare to see a politician doing it all the time. Most other politicians have at least some areas where they try to craft solutions for complex problems. Trump just... doesn't.

[Mutanatia]

He has done some smart things, but mostly we're looking at a net-negative, unfortunately.

[Dorab]

Marxist Germany, what are your thoughts?

[Marxist Germany]

Mostly positive, his foreign policy is too interventionist for my liking, but he is overall good