For the entirety of the Trump administration, Liberals and their fellow-traveler media mouthpieces decried Donald Trump as a dictator, Putin puppet, agent of Russia, a billionaire for billionaires, a Hitler-wannabe, and much worse. He was deemed a ‘threat to our very democracy’ by many from the Democrat side of the aisle, so much so that they literally impeached him (with no mention of criminal conduct in the Articles of Impeachment). Trump was assumed to be a White Supremacist, a racist, a homophobe, and a sexist, that would end all of the ‘rights’ that every minority had obtained in the last several decades. It would be the very personification of ‘The Handmaiden’s Tale’. Well, now the Trump administration is history, replaced by the new Joe Biden/Kamala Harris administration. How does the report card look for the prior admin? How is the new admin shaping up? Let’s dig.
In spite of the incredible rhetoric mentioned above, none of it happened. After the multi-year, multi-million dollars Mueller Probe, not a single link to Russia or Putin was discovered. Zero. The media led viewers and readers to believe that ‘collusion’ was a crime, punishable by removing Trump from office. Except it not only isn’t codified as a crime, Mueller couldn’t find a single instance of it. The media breathlessly reported that the Trump downfall was imminent, in their nightly newscasts. Epic failure: he served out his entire term. The party-line vote for punishment in the Senate for the impeachment fiasco didn’t end his term–only losing the election (fairly or unfairly) did so.
As a dictator, Trump was the worst in history: He donated his entire quarterly salary for his office to charities; he allowed nearly every media outlet the ability to bash him nightly, and none of them ‘disappeared’; he somehow managed to lead the Executive Branch for four years without rescinding a single ‘right’; he championed tax rate changes for nearly the entire tax base, rather than just for the billionaire class (but by capping mortgage interest and State Income Taxes, some folks tax bills did increase); the tax rate cuts, especially for businesses, led to some of the lowest unemployment numbers ever recorded, for nearly every minority sector; he championed international agreements to decriminalize homosexuality; his admin fulfilled a promise made but not kept by the last several Presidents—he moved the US embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem; his administration not only was the first since maybe WWII to NOT engage in new wars, they also brokered FOUR unheard-of peace deals between Israel and other Middle-eastern countries; Trump’s energy policies led to US energy independence for the first time in living memory; his administration had female, gay, and other minorities represented throughout, including two quite capable female Press Secretaries. Would a real dictator do ANY of those things?
Was it all positives? Not hardly. Even pre-COVID-19, Trump’s brash, in-your-face demeanor pushed many people away from him. His true-to-form New York businessman attitude, along with the associated braggadocio, was anti-diplomatic. His penchant for name-calling, especially as a method of counter-punching anyone that publicly bashed him, was felt WAY beneath the level of Presidential. His signing of TRILLION-dollar omnibus bills, along with tariff-heavy foreign policy, drove method Conservatives crazy. And the mixed reviews (real and imagined) of Trump’s handling of the COVID pandemic added to the ammunition of the media that already despised him, before he was even sworn in.
But now he is a private citizen again, enjoying his mid-70s down in his estate in Florida—although he was impeached by the House of Representatives again, this time for ‘inciting’ an unarmed ‘insurrection’. If that reads like an oxymoron, it is. The Senate will waste more taxpayer funds and time to adjudicate the latest Article of Impeachment, even though the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court—Constitutionally required to preside over such a trial—has refused to run that circus. The only intent here is to smear Trump’s legacy, and possibly prevent him from running for President again in 2024. Since the normal goal of impeachment is to remove the officeholder from his position, and he no longer holds office, it is the very definition of a ‘moot point’. The festivities continue.
What about the incoming, new Biden administration? In his first 10 days in office, Biden has signed or intends to sign, FORTY Executive Orders! Bypassing Congress, even though his party nominally controls both the House and the Senate, Biden seeks to reverse nearly ALL of the policies of the Trump admin. Everything from energy production to immigration to ‘transgender rights’, Biden has determined the best approach to right the wrongs (or temper the successes, depending upon point of view) of the prior administration is to do so via EO decree. Oddly enough, the media is mostly silent, as Biden is actually behaving exactly like the dictator they falsely accused Trump of for his entire term.
The folks in Democrat-controlled Congress are equally silent, regarding Biden’s EOs. In fact, they have made noises as extreme as silencing or criminalizing any dissenting opinions. They are seeking an environment where they would never lose power again: eliminating the Senate filibuster; adding ‘the right kind’ and number of justices to the Supreme Court to get their view of favorable rulings; ending the Electoral College method of selecting the President; Federal takeover of the States’ election process; adding Puerto Rico and Washington DC as new States, just to add more assumed Democrat Senators to the mix. Several of those topics are anti-Constitution, which should require an Amendment to enact, but they don’t seem to care much about that dusty, old, antiquated document. So, after claiming Trump was Putin, Biden and the Congress are currently impersonating Stalin and the Communist Party, respectfully. We’ll see if the remainder of the Biden administration continues this trend, or if the 2022 mid-terms change the trajectory. We live in interesting times.
