This is what I have been saying from the start. If I have got Reason magazine on my side, that's a victory. The Volokh Conspiracy should be next. Trump does say some alarming things, betraying a serious misunderstanding of the Constitution and legal precedent, the separate powers of government, and sometimes the simple rules of decency (though you will notice that was mostly the campaign and has receded since inauguration). Yet when one looks at what he has actually done, it is quite moderate, enough so that some of his supporters are beginning to grouse that he hasn't followed through on the scorched-earth policy they expected.
Watch their hands, do not listen to their words. Years after Trump is gone, you can hold to that rule. Obama's speech at the 2004 Democratic convention was one of the great speeches of American history. It should be sent out to schoolchildren to be memorised. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to have borne much relationship to his presidency.
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Occam sez they have to make him match their insanely overheated reactions and unwise, if not outrightly illegal, plots against him.
Trump does say some alarming things, betraying a serious misunderstanding of the Constitution and legal precedent, the separate powers of government, and sometimes the simple rules of decency
I do love it when someone thinks they are signalling their virtue, when the primary thing they did is make clear they didn't read Trump's books.
Yet when one looks at what he has actually done, it is quite moderate
Weird. It's almost like he wrote about deals and the artistry of making them.
Obama's speech at the 2004 Democratic convention was one of the great speeches of American history.
You're a sucker. That speech was filled with lies. It should, though, be taught to school children, along side with how Obama either lied in this speech or betrayed the point, with the help of the entirety of the democrat party. He and Clinton were malignant cancer to our politics and should only be remembered as that. His speech is hollow, filled with platitudes he didn't believe for the cynical purpose of being elected.
I do believe we are seeing John Maynard Keynes' "Animal Spirits" loose in the land.
I wrote a hasty and angry comment which I have deleted
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