WHAT WILL A TRUMP ADMINISTRATION BE WITH “4 MORE YEARS?” IT IS WHAT IT IS!
…President Trump & VP, Mike Pence, not
exactly the “Dynamic Duo” for the 2020 Election
First time in 160 years, no platform for the
Republican Party
I hate the thought, but should (heaven
forbid) Trump gain (4 More Years), what should the American public
expect?
Would it be the same as today, but even more of
what we see today? Would it be the
opposite of today, (that won’t happen)?
Or, will it be something completely different?
Let’s face it!
It is all up in the air, as for the first time in 160 years, the Republican
National Committee (RNC) formally decided to NOT offer any party principles
or priorities for the next four years.
This is the first time ever, since its founding, that the GOP is
not announcing any kind of platform for a presidential election. It even proclaimed that any attempt to adopt
any new platform would be: “ruled out of order.”
Instead, in acting like they have decided to
support a dictator over a president, the Republican Party says that they have
and they will continue to enthusiastically support the President’s America-first
agenda. This comes from a one-page RNC resolution. To quote the single page statement: “The
2020 Republican National Convention will adjourn without adopting a new
platform until the 2024 Republican National Convention.”
Yes,,
they are admitting that Donald Trump, “Owns the GOP, lock, stock and
barrel.”
At
least, you have to admit that the statement is honest. RNC officials could have offered a
list of objectives that they would eventually abandon, just as they have for
years. They of course, want a balanced
budget, to reform health care, and they want to close the trade deficit.
But as
far as asking for anything specific, that might risk crossing Trump. Instead, the RNC officials have punted
and “just issued a statement that’s basically something like what you could
find on an, ‘I’m With Stupid’ T-shirt,”
This is
not an original thought from me. This is
a statement from a Princeton University history professor,
Kevin Kruse.
You
might think that the RNC was thinking of maintaining the original,
unamended 2016 GOP platform, which the RNC did resolve,
back at the time. But to do that, would
seriously cause some serious awkwardness.
Within
the 2016 GOP Platform’s 66 pages, it contains language that condemns “the
current Administration (Obama’s)” for a “huge increase in the
national debt” (which Trump has doubled) and for “having abandoned
America’s friends and rewarded its enemies.” Sound familiar about Donald Trump and Russia?
Their
2016 platform seriously proclaims that “The current Administration (Obama's) has
exceeded its constitutional authority, brazenly and flagrantly violated the
separation of powers, sought to divide America into groups and turn citizen
against citizen.” Yes, compared to
the current, “Divider-in-Chief President,” to follow the 2016 platform
would cause a serious level of “awkwardness” for the current GOP.
Oh, and
let’s not forget that in 2016 it also says that: “The next president must restore the
public’s trust in law enforcement and civil order by first adhering to the rule
of law himself.”
Well, that didn't work and yes, and
this is what the 2016 platform requires.
Trump
has been asked at least by reporters, five times in the past two
months for what his priorities are for a second term. He has never answered. When he was queried about these
priorities by Fox News’ Sean Hannity, Trump rambled on about various
grievances, while he failed to mention a single actual presidential
priority. Even Trump’s strong ally
Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) admonished Hannity for failing to
help our “Dear Leader” answer the question.
Over the
following weeks, friendly media outlets offered Trump a chance for a "do-over." In an interview with Sinclair
Broadcast Group, Trump said the answer was “very simple. We’re going to
make America great again. We are doing things that nobody could have
done.” As usual, there’s never an
explanation as to what all that means….?
Trump took
his latest crack at the question just last week, of course in another Fox
News interview. This time, Trump declared that he “saved the
historically Black colleges and universities” and “rebuilt our military,”
and concluded that he “will strengthen what we’ve done and I will do new
things.”
Got
that? With Americans contracting Covid-19 at far higher rates than any country,
and with unemployment in double digits, Trump only pledges to do more of the
same.
This
might not appeal to the 7 in 10 Americans who say in recent polls the
country is on the “wrong track,” or the 8 in 10 who say they’re “dissatisfied with
the way things are going in the United States at this time.”
Trump
sometimes seems to be running against his own administration. That
is, when not boasting about how great the government he helms is, he is lambasting how awful it is, while ignoring that he’s the one in charge...?
He
recently attacked his own appointees at the Food and Drug Administration and
the FBI. In an incoherent
list of second-term agenda items that his campaign finally released, he pledged again to “drain the swamp”. The same swamp that he
has multiplied in size. He also swore to, health-wise: “Cover All Pre-Existing Conditions”. But today, that coverage is at serious risk because his own administration has asked the Supreme Court to remove
such protections afforded by Obamacare.
He also
says he is going to: “End Bureaucratic Government Bullying of U.S. Citizens
and Small Businesses”. But it is Trump’s
own bullying and his own weaponized bureaucracy that has
drowned Americans and their businesses in administrative bloat and uncertainty.
Nothing
is stated about controlling the coronavirus, or revitalizing the economy,
or repairing the social and political fabric of this nation, or the nation’s
current division. On these issues, Trump
offers no plan, nor a plan for having a plan.
And for Trump, you would at least expect a plan, for a plan, for a
plan.
All we
can say is that for all this, and if nothing else, the president and his party
have been very consistent.
With
Donald J. Trump, “it is what it is”, and that’s all that it is.
God help
us all.
Copyright
G. Ater 2020
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