Well well well, much to my surprise Trump seems to be moving to the middle on some issues. So the Trump enthusiasts may be in for a big disappointment. He has backed off prosecuting Hillary, he is now considering global warming as real, he is not going to immediately deport 11 million people.
And he is not appointing people as far right as one might expect. He picked Nikki Haley over John Bolton, which is a gigantic improvement in my opinion.
So what it is looking like now, is that Trump is going to help the rich immeasurably, by stealing from the rest of us (huge tax cuts for the rich) , and a huge stimulus program, but he won't support many of the social issues that the right wing wanted him to. His education secretary is for common core. He may not overturn Roe versus Wade.
So the right wing not only voted in somebody who is going to run up the deficit, bust their unions and force them into poverty e.g. getting rid of Obamacare, getting rid of medicare and social security and he wants a minimum wage of $10, rather than $15 and he will steer this country to provide cheap labor for the rich.
But it also looks like he may allow more liberal social issues to exist?
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It was a possibly "revelatory experience," writes Ross Douthat. Trump came across as a free-spending, dealmaking "Nixon-Rockefeller Republican," he writes, and if this "posture was a pander to my colleagues' pro-government sensibilities, it was also a plausible one—consistent with Trump's New York background, his past (and in his heart, probably present) social liberalism, and many of his pre-2016 pronouncements." Click for his full column. |
