You mention “large swaths of the population.” Before I say a bit about President Donald Trump, I urge you to examine the counties won by Donald Trump. He may have lost NYC and Los Angeles, but the beauty of The Electoral College is precisely the result of 2016. Without it and the forethought of our Founders, we would have become a banana republic.
Do you ever dare mention the positive things coming out of the Trump presidency?
Among other things, Donald Trump, in just his first year:
He enforced President Barack Obama’s red line against Syria’s use of chemical weapons. He acted quickly and decisively, restoring America’s credibility on the world stage that Obama had squandered.
Trump has taken a surprisingly tough line with Russia. Trump approved a $47 million arms package for Ukraine, sent troops to Poland’s border with Russia and imposed new sanctions on Moscow for violating the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty.
He recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, something promised but not enacted for s long time.
He withdrew from the highly flawed and the non-Senate approved Paris climate agreement.
Trump got NATO allies to kick in $12 billion more toward our collective security. But Trump’s tough talk and reluctance to affirm America’s Article V commitment did the trick. NATO is stronger as a result.
Trump has virtually eliminated Islamic State’s physical caliphate. Trump removed the constraints Obama placed on our military and let it drive the terrorists from their strongholds.
Trump admitted he was wrong on Afghanistan and reversed Obama’s disastrous withdrawal. In a rare admission, Trump declared: “My original instinct was to pull out. … But all my life, I’ve heard that decisions are much different when you sit behind the desk in the Oval Office. … A hasty withdrawal would create a vacuum for terrorists.”
Trump enacted historic tax and regulatory reform that has unleashed economic growth. Trump signed the first comprehensive tax reform in three decades and removed the wet blanket of Obama-era regulations smothering our economy. We are now heading into our third consecutive quarter of above 3 and close to 4 percent growth. Blacks and Latinos are now working in unprecedented numbers.
Donald Trump, not Hillary Clinton, was inaugurated as president. Trump delivered the coup de grace that ended the reign of the corrupt Clinton machine.
Just because Europeans loved Obama did not make him a great President.