What I do see is not policies so much as debating points aimed at waking up the audience. If you demand everything and sound unreasonable, it is certain that your opposition will show up ready to do business. Then you see if it is even possible to shake out a satisfactory solution.
He knows quite well all this must translate into an acceptable body of legislation. You may also be sure he knows his limitations better than anyone else. However, bluff is a powerful tactic.
This is the first potential president I have seen in sixty years quite able to run circles around the Russians and even bring Iran to heel.
Otherwise most analysis on Trump that i have seen remains wishful thinking and mostly naive. He has proven over and over again that he can pick successful partners and build and then get out of the way. These accomplishments are not bombast. What better definition exists for a successful president?
60 Policies from One Year of Donald Trump
How to make America a weird and scary authoritarian state:
Friday, June 17, 2016
https://fee.org/articles/60-policies-from-one-year-of-donald-trump/
One year ago, Donald Trump thrust his bizarre, erratic, and
incomprehensible campaign on the world. Much has been said about Trump’s
"rhetoric" during his campaign — the racism, sexism, incivility, and
much else besides — but rhetoric is not what makes a Trump
administration a unique threat to the country. It is his policy
proposals that should receive our closest attention and concern.
Below is a list of nearly 60 “policies,” if you can dignify them with
such a title, that Trump has proposed during his campaign. The list
drives home how truly frightening a Trump presidency would be for the
country and the world. Skimming the surface of Trump’s stream of
consciousness brings out some particularly disturbing aspects of his
agenda: notably, the way he singles out specific businesses and
individuals for targeting by the government, as well as his obsessions
with China, Mexico, Muslims, and immigrants.
Perhaps worst of all, Trump’s proposals expose how broad he thinks
the powers of the presidency are: virtually infinite. There is never a
glimmer of understanding that the government is bound by the
Constitution, that the federal government has limited scope and
authority, or that president is just one of three equal branches of the
federal government.
Instead, it is Trump, and Trump alone, who will transform American laws, government, and society, from the top down. Trump will bomb and invade countries, Trump will steal their oil, Trump
will kill deserters, torture suspects, bypass courts, ban Muslims,
break treaties, and have the military do things like mass executions
with bullets dipped in pigs' blood — all while getting Americans to say
“Merry Christmas” again.
Well, all I can say is Merry Christmas, America. Here's what the primaries brought us this year.
Bold: attack on individual or business.
Italics: attack on Mexico or China.
Underlined: attack on immigration.
Italics: attack on Mexico or China.
Underlined: attack on immigration.
June 2015
- Make Ford to Scrap Expansion Plan in Mexico August 2015
- Deport 11 Million Immigrants
- Triple Number of Deportation Agents
- Force Cities and States to Help Deport Immigrants
- Force Mexico to Pay for Wall on US Border
- Strip US Citizenship from Babies Born to Immigrants September 2015
- Use FCC to Fine His Critic, Rich Lowry
- Place 35% Tariff on Ford Cars Made in Mexico
- "We Will Break" North American Free Trade Agreement
- “Government Will Pay” for Health Care for “Everyone” October 2015
- Deport Syrian Refugees Legally in the US
- Soldiers Who Desert Should Be Shot
- Spend Tens of Billions on Border Wall
- Keep Troops in Afghanistan November 2015
- Kill TPP Free Trade Agreement
- Get Americans to Say "Merry Christmas"
- Create Special Deportation Force to Remove Immigrants
- “Bomb the S***” Out of Syria
- Close Mosques in the United States
- Create Database for Muslims
- Bypass Courts in Mass Deportation Plan December 2015
- Restart Warrantless Surveillance, Metadata Collection
- Kill Family Members of Terrorists
- Washington Post Is a "Tax Shelter" for Amazon, Jeff Bezos
- Ban All Muslim Travel to US
- Shut Down "Parts" of the Internet
- Issue Executive Order Mandating the Death Penalty for Killing Police January 2016
- Impose 45% Tariff on Chinese Products
- Throw Bowe Bergdhal Out of a Plane in Afghanistan February 2016
- Tells Supporters to Knock Out Protesters
- Use Eminent Domain for Economic Development
- Tax Carrier-brand Air Conditioners Made in Mexico
- Force Apple, Tim Cook to Break into iPhone for FBI
- Keep Obamacare’s Individual Mandate for Health Insurance
- Praises Mass Executions of Captured Soldiers with Bullets Dipped in Pigs Blood
- Threatens Donor for Giving to Opponent’s Campaign
- Prosecute Hillary Clinton
- Proposes “Trade War” with China
- “Open Up Libel Laws” to Sue Critical Press March 2016
- Force Apple to Make iPhones in US, not China
- Force Military to Follow Illegal Orders
- Prosecute Ed Snowden for "Spying" for Russia
- “Torture” Terrorism Suspects
- Increase Military Spending
- Steal Iraqis' Oil
- “Pause” Legal Immigration
- Send 20,000 or 30,000 Troops to Middle East
- Trump Could Envision a Nuclear First Strike
- Appoint Supreme Court Justice to Investigate Clinton’s EmailApril 2016
- Raise Taxes on the Wealthy May 2016
- Threatens Pfizer, Carrier, Ford, and Nabisco With 35% Tariff
- Increase Minimum Wage
- “Go After” Amazon for Anti-Trust and Taxes
- Bomb Libya
- Threatens “Mexican” Federal Judge Trying His CaseJune 2016
- “Keep Business Out of Mexico”
- Ban All People from Countries with "History of Terrorism"
- Surveillance of US Mosques
- Ban Guns for People on Secret "Watch Lists"
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