How Donald Trump Tossed the Country to the wolves

 Most Americans did not see it coming but in retrospect, Donald Trump did not have a chance to change the direction of our country..  The hate, the partisan politics, the identity politics, the very question as to whether or not the wall to socialism was coming down were his obstacles.  That Biden has “decided” now is the time to unite is appalling and I don’t believe we will unite.  I hope we don’t because over the last 5 years “unite” means “let’s move hand in loving hand to socialism” and all things hate-Trump are legit.  Kathy Griffin can be photographed carrying a severed head of Donald Trump, to name but one of hundreds of examples and NOW we are supposed to unite?  The RiNo’s are already caving as they have since the LBJ years of “the great society.”  No thanks.

Is Trump going to eventually win the election?  The results look less and less favorable as a succession of court decisions dismiss his claims (I understand that in the Leftist lower courts, not sure what will happen in SCoTUS).  I hope he does eventually win but not because I have faith in him any longer. It is just that Harris is worse.

I have been making the case for a year to anyone who will listen, which is no one, that Trump had only one weapon, the checkbook.

Obama did not get much done through congress so he did it by executive order.  Obamacare was an exception.  While Scott Brown had yet to be confirmed as a new member of the Senate from Massachusetts, Schumer rushed through Obamacare legislation that would not have made it had Brown been a senator. The timing was deliberate; the vote was to be before Brown was confirmed.  What Obama did by executive order, such as the “dreamers’ act” was deemed constitutional while Trump’s reversal is deemed unconstitutional. So, we have Congress and the judiciary working against Trump.  There is little he could have done over the last four years except enlist public opinion and between the despicable organizations we know as Facebook, Twitter, CNN and MSNBC there was no chance he could do that effectively to a second term.

So, what could he have done?

The president either ratifies or rejects budgets, including “continuing resolutions” which are not full budgets, as put to him by Congress.  As I understand this tool, it funds the government in the interim until Congress submits a formal, longer lasting budget.  Trump signed a continuing resolution about a year ago, I think and then later said he would not sign another one (shades of Bush #1’s “no new taxes”) and then he did.  I believe he should have shut down all but essential services, military, medicare, social security (from both of which I draw but then I was required to pay into those programs for 40 years).  Oh horrors! Right?  What would we do without the federal government to provide for our every need and protect us from unidentified evil?  Armageddon!!

97% of the D.C. vote went to Biden (and Biden wants to make D.C. the 51st state, surprise!). 70% of the vote in Fairfax County, Virginia, home to thousands of federal employees went to Biden.  The Feds are scattered around the country and the ratio is not likely as skewed as it is in D.C. and Fairfax County but it is reasonable to assume most Federal employees are democrats. I worked for the State of Washington for 25 years and as a Libertarian was in the minority.

When the cards are stacked, play your best card and now to my point:

Shut the government down.  AND NO RETROACTIVE PAY when it reopens. What did he have to lose? Nothing!  RiNo’s would have been critical and the already hateful democrats would have come out swinging.   After he vetoes the continuing resolution he presents a list to Schumer/Pelosi of Federal policy and programs that will be negotiated before he opens the government up via continuing resolution (or full budget)  The committees that negotiate this will see a majority of Dems in the house and a majority of R’s in the senate but the government does not re-open until Trump is presented with a package of bills that HE deems reasonable.   

The above scenario is unlikely.  Schumer/Pelosi would keep the government shut down and blame Trump for even the smallest fender bender on I-95.  However it is the Dems that are going to pressure Pelosi/Schumer to get back to the negotiating table since they know they have no leverage with Trump. None.

Outcomes:

1. Trump’s veto is sustained.  The government remains shut down until its business is done. Dems at all levels hate Trump (what’s new). RiNos seek hiding places.  The Dems eventually come to the table since it is their voters who are losing their homes (in D.C. I certainly hope this is the case) In the meantime the average citizen comes to learn life without the Feds did not come to an end.  This realization is one the Dems and RiNo’s do NOT want to see occur since it weakens the fear-based hold they have on the voters.

2. Trump’s veto is overridden (60% vote of both houses required). The government resumes operations; the last chance for reigning in government is gone, probably forever, BUT Trump can look at himself in the mirror and feel pride. If I were he, that I had tried would be a proud part of my legacy.

3. Perhaps there are less severe outcomes.  I just don’t see any. These four years were indeed war and Trump capitulated. He only ever had only one weapon and he chose to not use it.

As a former resident of Washington State, I remember respectfully the “anti-tax” guru, Tim Eyman.  Washington raped car owners with yearly renewal fees that were obscene (my wife and I own a 4-Runner and I suspect our fees would have approached $500 per year, current value of money, pre-Eyman).  Eyman proposed an initiative to the voters that limited the taxes to $30 per year. It won the vote. The hate and shrieking at all levels of government was my delight (I filed a successful ethics complaint against a transit district director who over stated his hate for eyman).  The point here is that a succession of governors was not going to reduce taxes and spending; nor was the state senate and house and the state supreme court rendered a mix of opinions.  Thus I called Eyman, the “4th branch of government,” or the “check book.”  The ONLY way to reform government is to limit what it has to spend. No other approach has ever had the same effect on cutting government.  Vetoing “continuing resolutions” was the only weapon Trump had.  Again, he chose to not use it.  Continuing resolutions are not full budgets. They are interim.  No budget was ever passed during the Obama administration. Nor was a budget passed during the Trump years.

Donald Trump did much as president.  No Paris Climate Accord (to which Biden has committed us).  Tax breaks, energy development, SCoTUS and district court appointments but matched to his campaign promises (and unspoken but base-fed initiatives), he had significant failures.  Education, from kindergarten through higher education, is a socialist machine.  Betsy DeVos should have been in the newspapers every day touting private systems, suing school districts that sent home a child wearing a Trump T-shirt or failed minimum education standards.  Freedom of speech is no more protected now than it was pre-Trump.  A conservative student will be expelled from a college campus for expressing conservative views while BLM and ANTIFA-continue murderous and assault threats on campuses, with no punishment.  Christopher Wray continues under Biden as director of the FBI.  Anyone else wonder why Trump did not fire him?  Anyone wonder why there have been no federal charges against Hillary Clinton, Lisa Page, Peter Stzok, James Brennan, Jim Comey?  What did Trump have to lose?  Nothing. So either he got bad advice or he cowed to terrified down-ballot Republicans. I still have very limited second amendment rights, rights now more important than ever since the left encourages violence in the streets and police are reduced in numbers and are afraid of using lethal force against miscreants who will happily use lethal force against me. The only property guaranteed protection is that of the elected officials who defund the police:  the Chicago mayor, a councilwoman in Minneapolis, the mayor of Seattle.  Obamacare continues to dilute the health care for which I pre-paid for 40 years. Sarah Palin was right.  There are “death panels” in Obamacare. They have yet to become operational but they certainly will. Should I ever be denied a medical procedure because I am white or too old...at that point I really have nothing to lose.

I don’t know why Trump failed on so many promises.  He is a strong man.  Perhaps he tired of the non-stop vitriol and hate (my wife says he secretly hoped he would lose the election; I do not agree with her); perhaps he (unfortunately) caved to Republicans in “down ballot” offices who were afraid his direction would cost them their jobs.   NOTE to Trump:  NEVER do the political thing; do the right thing and be proud of yourself even in failure  when you look in the mirror. I believe our country jumped off the precipice with the election of Harris/Biden. Though I did not vote for Trump the second time and have no remorse at his loss.  He was our last chance; this country was his to lose and he did just that. His “legacy” is going to be mediocre and will likely be presented by the radical left so it won’t matter.

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