Hillary supporters thought their worst nightmare had come
true on election night when Donald Trump won. But that might not turn out to be
their worst nightmare. Their worst
nightmare might be a Trump presidency that is more successful than the eight
Obama years, showing just how inept the Washington liberals have been since
Obama came into power.
Impossible? Well, realistically it isn’t a very high bar. Trump
doesn’t really have to do too much to be better than Obama.
He doesn’t have to completely solve the structural problems
in the workplace that have put so many Rust Belt workers on unemployment – he just
has to pay attention to their plight and do SOMETHING, ANYTHING, to help them rather
than ignore them as part of the uninteresting “flyover country”.
He doesn’t have to perform an economic miracle with the
economy – he just has to get growth going again instead of deciding, as the liberals
did, that 2% growth is the “new normal” and we will be satisfied with it.
He doesn’t have to solve the Middle East mess – he just has
to get us out of it and stop hemorrhaging American lives and money in a lost
cause. (We have invested about $4 TRILLION and about 8000 American lives in
these wars – the longest in America history - and things are far, far worse throughout the
entire Middle East than when we first went in to invade Iraq)
He doesn’t have to solve the problem of rising medical costs
– he just has to put something workable in place to pick up the pieces as
Obamacare fails. He doesn’t even have to
repeal Obamcare to get rid of it (though he may anyway) – it is failing of its
own accord because it never was fiscally sustainable.
He doesn’t have to make Congress work well – he just has to
make it work at all, to actually pass a budget on time, to actually get some
legislature through.
My guess is that he may well achieve at least this much (and
we all, liberal and conservative, Republican and Democrat alike, had better
hope so!!), because this isn’t really a very high bar. And if he does, he will look a lot better
than the last eight years!
And that will be the liberal’s real nightmare.
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