Commentary
Within my stack of stuff is a folder with articles having comments, some personal views, of President Trump since he uncorked the Trump doctrine on tariffs. I thought I would share some of them with you, along with my comments, of course.
Consider the Source
In two articles, individuals at the leftist Economist were quoted, with one, James Bennet, saying it “conceivable that Republicans could rise up against him.” Also from the left, the British paper Guardian’s David Smith remarked that Trump’s decision to retreat on his tariff proposal was “a sign of weakness.”
Chances are that Larry Jacobs, director of the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance at the University of Minnesota rarely has anything good to say about Trump. “To me,” he said, “there are clear indications that Donald Trump’s presidency is endangered.”
In her wide-ranging column of topics, Maureen Dowd, went from conceding that “you have to give it to Donald Trump … the man is a marvel at multitasking,” as she wrote of his relaxing restrictions on water pressure from shower heads to winning his golf club’s championship, she quoted Obamaite David Axelrod of all people.
“We’re living in a bizarro world,” Axelrod told her as he sought to paint a picture of Americans not so keen on cutting waste, fraud and abuse as he cited cuts in the Social Security office as if it had anything to do with reducing their benefits.
How often does Trump or one of his people have to say, ‘your Social Security will not be touched?’
Dowd viewed Trump as being “consumed with the terms of surrender for top law firms … in his quest to get even with those who went after him unfairly,” as she remarks that that she doesn’t want “revenge,” and “lives ruined” in her government.
How soon she seems to have forgotten what Biden’s DOJ lawfare did to Trump, his family, and the lives of Michael Flynn and Carter Page.
Then there are those globalists, who fear that Trump’s America first policy is taking the U.S. down a path we will regret. “Americans want their country to be the world’s growth engine,” writes Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan, “but not, as a former Reagan administration official put it, through policies that risk the collapse of the global financial system.”
Sir Niall Ferguson, a British American historian, in an opinion piece published by The Free Press, accuses Trump of an assault on globalism. “Trump has repeatedly promised to make the United States a manufacturing powerhouse,” he notes, adding that Trump believes that “friends even more than foes have been taking our jobs, taking our wealth.”
Conceding “no one can deny Trump’s boldness,” Ferguson writes, with Trump’s commitment to American decolonization, “in the name of making America great again, paradoxically, he is intent on shrinking it by returning to a time – around 1900 – when it was the workshop of the world – but in geopolitical terms, a near irrelevance.”
Ferguson is critical of those committed to Trump trying to make America great again by killing globalism, ending forever wars and bring manufacturing jobs back to the United States. He views Trump as an” unhinged demagogue crashing both the world economy and the liberal international order.”
In an opposing view, John Carney, Breitbart economic editor, writes, what “we are witnessing under Trump’s trade policy is a restructuring of the rules of globalization.”
Enough of the Naysayers
In “Trust Unshaken: Trump Voters Are Sticking With Their Guy,” over a refreshing piece by Joshua Chaffin in the Wall Street Journal, “The prospects of economic upheaval has not disturbed the personal bond between the president and the MAGA movement. There’s a method in his madness.”
For his article, Chaffin interviewed Melissa Sample, 57, a real estate saleswoman from Onalaska, Wisconsin, Kenny Cook,50, who runs a gravestone business in Mineral Point, Missouri, Phil Gross and his wife Donna, who have a painting business in Chester, Pennsylvania, and Juli Thelen, 53 an executive assistant with a manufacturing firm in Columbus, Nebraska, all of whom have hung with Trump through the Jan. 6 charges, the assassination attempts and his reelection, relating stories of that relationship.
Sample told of friendships lost because of her support of Trump. “Everything Trump does they say is going to be nuclear, and it’s not,” said Thelen.
A Reminder: Whether you are listening to a TV anchor, reading your favorite newspaper or magazine, scanning the Internet or looking into your social media site, please consider the source when given an opinion.
May God continue to bless the United States of America,
