Trump being Trump: bug or feature?
Again, and for the zillionth time, we find ourselves talking about Donald Trump and again the discussion centers on style.
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Trump v. Biden California.
To imagine the policy impacts of a Trump second term you examine the first. To imagine the policy impacts of a Biden presidency, you examine Democrat-controlled California.
Asked and answered.
I’d be willing to bet that Donald Trump has taken more questions from the media in 44 months than his two predecessors combined took in 16 years.
Biden v. Trump? Look at de Blasio v. Giuliani.
The comparison of the New York City of Rudy Giuliani against the New York City of Bill de Blasio offers a useful preview of a Trump United States vs. a Biden United States.
It’s more fundamental than just a choice between Trump and Biden.
In a constitutional republic, the people’s representatives pass laws. That’s bedrock principle among conservatives. But among leftists, it’s a technicality that they are increasingly comfortable sidestepping.
The media’s shameful dereliction in Portland.
The media is doing all it can to play down destructive rioting in deep-blue Portland, Oregon that has been going on every single night for the past two months.
Courting black voters: Trump should double-down.
Donald Trump, at a 2016 campaign speech in Michigan, became the first Republican presidential candidate in modern times to overtly court black voters.
Absence of trust.
There are two institutions in our country that cannot operate effectively in the absence of public trust. Both institutions – acting almost as if in concert – have aggressively forfeited that trust.
Hard experience.
We choose to accept the risk of disease entering the country via illegal immigration. We don’t have to.
Everything comes at a price.
Appropriate policy occupies some indeterminable spot on a continuum between taking no special action whatsoever on one extreme and completely stopping all industry, commerce and interpersonal transactions on the other.
On China Trump has been right early and often.
We suddenly are aware of the fact that untold numbers of things – things that are absolutely essential to the health of our economy as well as to our very bodies – are manufactured in a totalitarian country that will stick it to us the first time it suits their convenience.
On the subject of coronavirus.
It has been a rough week but here’s the good news. We’ll get through this. And we’ll be smarter and we’ll be stronger for having done so.