Call your attention to a very interesting piece in the New York Times late last week. That's right, the New York Times called "The case for Trump" – by someone who wants him to lose – written by Bret Stephens, former Wall Street Journal editorialist who is in fact a conservative and a never-Trumper.
Bret opens by saying that "too many people, especially progressives, fail to think deeply about the enduring sources of [Trump's] appeal" and Bret goes on to outline three of Mr. Trump's most important and effective issues.
First, closing the border to stop illegal immigration, as he did in the first term. Second, to restore middle-class affordability with rising real wages, as he did in his first term and third, to make another stab at draining the swamp to right the wrongs of the Center for Disease Control, the FBI, the CIA, and the justice system.
So, Mr. Stephens says: "Americans have reasons to remember the Trump years as good ones... Wages outpaced inflation. Unemployment fell to 50-year lows, stocks boomed, inflation and interest rates were low. "
(He forgot about the low gas prices)
Bret Stephens also gives Trump a lot of credit for a strong foreign policy and he asks, "Does the world feel safer under Biden – with Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Hamas' and Hezbollah's assault on Israel, Houthi attacks on shipping, the Chinese open threat to invade Taiwan – than it did under Trump?" and Mr. Stephens noted that Trump kept our adversaries on their guard and off balance.
With all that in his fair-minded column, Bret Stephens shouldn't be a never-Trumper, but I'm not going to convince him, at least not today. Meanwhile, I'm going to argue that these important issues are exactly why Mr. Trump is so far ahead in Republican primary polling, including tonight's Iowa caucuses.
Grow the economy, close the border, drain the swamp, stand up to our world enemies – the 45th president did so much of it in his first term, he has so much experience now to take on the rest of it in a second term, and no one has messaged it better than he has.
"I'm not going to have time for retribution. We're going to make this country so successful again. I'm not going to have time for retribution and remember this, our ultimate retribution is success."
In other words, success is the best revenge and tonight's Iowa caucus vote is likely to launch one of the greatest comebacks in American political history.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/larry-kudlow-iowa-caucuses-will-launch-one-of-the-greatest-comebacks-in-american-political-history/ar-AA1n1htO?ocid=entnewsntp&pc=LCTS&cvid=a9fb026e773e4e0a81380de56f5ab373&ei=11
One thing though - actually a LOT of Trump voters are looking for retribution.
Biden has destroyed his foreign policy in his quest to lower fuel prices. He lifted the sanctions on Iran - and never reimposed them - EVEN AFTER OCTOBER 6th. He also imposed sanctions on the export of Russian oil. Sanctions that have failed so miserably that even the US Navy has found itself in possession of fuel shipped directly from Russia - in open defiance of the sanctions imposed by the Commander in Chief of the US Navy. Most of his foreign policy has been dictated by his attempts to correct his domestic mistakes - which has only made them worse.
One thing does seem to be more common now, the general belief that Biden doesn't give a damned about anyone or anything except himself (and that includes the office and his legacy). I've heard that more in the last month than I've heard it in the previous 12 - followed by specific examples. But that could be the result of another growing belief - that Biden is in charge of nothing and the people who are making the decisions have their own self-interests or specific political goal that they don't care about anything - especially when they won't be held responsible. This was abruptly revealed when the Secretary of Defense literally disappeared, and no one noticed. The Whitehouse spokesperson declared things went just fine without the Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and went on to detail the taking out of a terrorist cell, and ISIS leader and the attacks on the Houthi bases and several other military actions... One has to wonder WTF is going on here. All that happened with the secretary of state and the president on vacation, the secretary of defense missing. Who made all these decisions without the leadership present? Hell - these actions were taken without even asking any of these people - not only were they not available no one even NOTICED they were gone.
Bret opens by saying that "too many people, especially progressives, fail to think deeply about the enduring sources of [Trump's] appeal" and Bret goes on to outline three of Mr. Trump's most important and effective issues.
First, closing the border to stop illegal immigration, as he did in the first term. Second, to restore middle-class affordability with rising real wages, as he did in his first term and third, to make another stab at draining the swamp to right the wrongs of the Center for Disease Control, the FBI, the CIA, and the justice system.
So, Mr. Stephens says: "Americans have reasons to remember the Trump years as good ones... Wages outpaced inflation. Unemployment fell to 50-year lows, stocks boomed, inflation and interest rates were low. "
(He forgot about the low gas prices)
Bret Stephens also gives Trump a lot of credit for a strong foreign policy and he asks, "Does the world feel safer under Biden – with Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Hamas' and Hezbollah's assault on Israel, Houthi attacks on shipping, the Chinese open threat to invade Taiwan – than it did under Trump?" and Mr. Stephens noted that Trump kept our adversaries on their guard and off balance.
With all that in his fair-minded column, Bret Stephens shouldn't be a never-Trumper, but I'm not going to convince him, at least not today. Meanwhile, I'm going to argue that these important issues are exactly why Mr. Trump is so far ahead in Republican primary polling, including tonight's Iowa caucuses.
Grow the economy, close the border, drain the swamp, stand up to our world enemies – the 45th president did so much of it in his first term, he has so much experience now to take on the rest of it in a second term, and no one has messaged it better than he has.
"I'm not going to have time for retribution. We're going to make this country so successful again. I'm not going to have time for retribution and remember this, our ultimate retribution is success."
In other words, success is the best revenge and tonight's Iowa caucus vote is likely to launch one of the greatest comebacks in American political history.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/larry-kudlow-iowa-caucuses-will-launch-one-of-the-greatest-comebacks-in-american-political-history/ar-AA1n1htO?ocid=entnewsntp&pc=LCTS&cvid=a9fb026e773e4e0a81380de56f5ab373&ei=11
One thing though - actually a LOT of Trump voters are looking for retribution.
Biden has destroyed his foreign policy in his quest to lower fuel prices. He lifted the sanctions on Iran - and never reimposed them - EVEN AFTER OCTOBER 6th. He also imposed sanctions on the export of Russian oil. Sanctions that have failed so miserably that even the US Navy has found itself in possession of fuel shipped directly from Russia - in open defiance of the sanctions imposed by the Commander in Chief of the US Navy. Most of his foreign policy has been dictated by his attempts to correct his domestic mistakes - which has only made them worse.
One thing does seem to be more common now, the general belief that Biden doesn't give a damned about anyone or anything except himself (and that includes the office and his legacy). I've heard that more in the last month than I've heard it in the previous 12 - followed by specific examples. But that could be the result of another growing belief - that Biden is in charge of nothing and the people who are making the decisions have their own self-interests or specific political goal that they don't care about anything - especially when they won't be held responsible. This was abruptly revealed when the Secretary of Defense literally disappeared, and no one noticed. The Whitehouse spokesperson declared things went just fine without the Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and went on to detail the taking out of a terrorist cell, and ISIS leader and the attacks on the Houthi bases and several other military actions... One has to wonder WTF is going on here. All that happened with the secretary of state and the president on vacation, the secretary of defense missing. Who made all these decisions without the leadership present? Hell - these actions were taken without even asking any of these people - not only were they not available no one even NOTICED they were gone.
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