Trump's Biggest Achievement in His 1st 100 Days? Stopping the Left

Trump's Biggest Achievement in His 1st 100 Days? Stopping the Left​

By Larry Elder
‎4‎/‎27‎/‎2017

President Donald Trump's biggest achievement in his first 100 days? Easy. He stopped the left.
Measure Trump's first 100 days not just by looking at what he has or has not accomplished. Look at what America would have experienced under the alternative: Hillary Clinton.
Under Clinton, the debate would not be on how to replace Obamacare, but how quickly can the left realize its ultimate ambition, a Canadian-style, single-payer system. Under Clinton, the issue would not be how steep the tax cuts, but how many "rich" people, also known as job creators, would experience yet another growth-restricting tax hike.
Under Clinton, the $100 billion-plus annually in new regulations imposed by President Barack Obama -- much of it to fight "climate change" -- would continue to rise. This has stopped. President Trump signed an executive order that requires an elimination of two regulations for every new regulation proposed by an executive department or agency in 2017, with a zero-dollar net increase in the cost of regulations.
Under Clinton, newly confirmed conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch would've been another Ruth Bader Ginsburg/Sonia Sotomayor/Elena Kagan clone. Four left-wing SCOTUS justices, in the Heller case, ruled that there is not an individual right to keep and bear arms. Spare us a fifth one.
Trump, too, has put the left-wing media on notice. No more Mr. Nice Guy. Through WikiLeaks, we found that John Harwood, a debate moderator, emailed a letter to Hillary Clinton campaign manager John Podesta, bragging about a question he had put to Donald Trump. He also emailed advice on dealing with the challenge posed by Dr. Ben Carson. Staffers for newsmen Jake Tapper and Wolf Blitzer of CNN contacted the Democratic National Committee to seek questions they might put to Republican presidential candidates. There were many other examples of flat-out collusion, well beyond the liberal bias we've come to expect.
President Trump also changed eight years of Obama's "leading from behind" foreign policy by using our largest non-nuclear bomb on ISIS in Afghanistan and bombing Syria for its use of chemical weapons. Under Obama, we pulled out all the troops from Iraq, despite the objections of his foreign policy and national security and defense teams. One of the members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, now-retired Army Gen. Ray Odierno, said: "I go back to the work we did in 2007 (through) 2010, and we got into a place that was really good. Violence was low, the economy was growing, politics looked like it was heading in the right direction. ... We thought we had it going exactly in the right direction, but now we watch it fall apart. It's frustrating. ... I think, maybe, if we had stayed a little more engaged, I think maybe it might have prevented it."
Under Obama, we bombed Libya, a mission that the Obama administration admitted was done for humanitarian reasons. Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi had paid reparations for the terrorist explosion of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. And following the American-led invasion of Iraq, Gadhafi had surrendered his weapons of mass destruction to the U.S. Yet under President Obama, America joined the French and British in bombing Libya to rid the country of Gadhafi. Incredibly, after criticizing President George W. Bush for not thinking through the invasion of Iraq, when Obama was asked what he thought was the "biggest mistake" of his presidency, Obama said, "Probably failing to plan for the day after what I think was the right thing to do in intervening in Libya."
For the most part, President Trump has delivered on his promises, or has attempted to deliver on them.
Take immigration. While the wall construction has not begun, nor has Trump been able to figure out a way to get Mexico to pay for it, a psychological wall has already gone up. Border-crossing apprehensions were down more than 60 percent from January to March, after Trump made it clear the welcome mat for illegal entry has been rolled up.
As for the so-called "failure" to repeal and replace Obamacare, businesspeople nevertheless have confidence that whatever emerges will be less expensive, less onerous and less intrusive than what they would have faced under a President Hillary Clinton.
Ultimately, Trump will likely be judged on one thing -- the economy. If he manages a 4 percent GDP growth, as promised during the campaign, few will care about his nocturnal tweets.

Source: https://townhall.com/columnists/arr...n-his-1st-100-days-stopping-the-left-n2318730


Hillary not in office, check. Gorsuch SCOTUS, check. A few regulations removed through executive order, check, No ACA repeal. check, No tax reform (yet), check, No wall construction, check.
There is only so much "halting of the left" that Trump can accomplish single-handedly. To accomplish what he promised, our president needs the help of all the Republicans who lied about their agenda to get elected and have now abandoned their campaign promises.
Indeed, President Trump has stopped the ranting/raving, Progressive Leftist Democrat Party cold. IMHO, he has had some great help and assistance from the unwittingly Democrat Party itself. I’ll name a few of his most active, avid helpers and supporters, Schumer, Clinton, Obama, Sanders, Waters, Warren, Pelosi, Schiff, etc., Morons all!!
Now really, I would not classify these folks as Trump supporters, in the least. They are better identified as Democrat Party destroyers, Love it, Keep it up Dems.
What I'm waiting for is the arrests and convictions of the treasonous criminals who for the last eight years have attempted to destroy this country.

 

So, let me make sure I fully understand this before I expose it for what it is. Are you seriously putting forth the idea that Donald Trump's first "100 Days in Office" and whether or not he's been successful, is or should be predicated upon what someone who is not President of the United States might have done had they been elected?

I guess that when you have no real accomplishments of your to tout, you really have little else that you can do but pretend that you are still debating the candidate that did not win and does not have to ability to respond.

You know, given the total lack of integrity that I've seen from both Trump and his supporters, I am absolutely not surprised at this tactic for creating fake news about fake policies that an imaginary President would have or could have brought into existence.

This was absolutely shameful, but I've come to expect nothing less from Trumpets.

 

I gotta be honest.

I haven't seen the Trump administration stop the Left.

I've seen the Left, use Leftist Judges, To stop Trump.

 

Too busy badmouthing those that disagreed with them to find time to govern.

 

Hillbilly is at home sobbing into a pillow knowing that the rest of her misarable, dishonest life nobody will call her "madame president" That's something that we can all call an accomplishment.

Trump's accomplishments? Look at all the regulations that he has undone that Obama punished the American people with because he wasn't/isn't on our side. And there's more of Obama's legacy waiting to be expunged from the books as the days pass. That's an accomplishment.

Plus look at the non stop endorsement from the Democrats who pose as reporters every day, you know Trump is doing his job well when the "news media" wet their diapers every day.

 

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Specifically, please name the regulations that Obama used to punish the American People, because they were not on his side? Thank you.

Please explain how undoing a legacy translates into accomplishment. Thank you.

Please identify (by name) all Fox News Employees who have not wet their diapers ever day, while failing to endorse Trump and his actions either prior to or during his current Presidency. Thank you.

Your participation in this Mental Health Field Study will no doubt be advantageous to those future patients for whom this research intends to find a cure to the well known disease of Trumpet Syndrome. Thank you and please note that your transportation expense will be tax deductible as this study is being conducted by a non-profit organization dedicated to securing the good mental health of all Americans.

Again, thank you for your participation.

 

Elder is correct. Even if Trump did nothing "conservative", at the very least he stopped the leftward march to hell.

We're already wounded. Another eight years of far left lunacy (bigger government, weakness abroad) would have put the final nail in our coffin.

 

I'm starting to think that might be for the best. A light tap on the brake isn't going to stop the car from crashing into the wall. The sooner the system collapses under its own weight the sooner the rebuilding process could occur.

 

Outside of the SCOTUS appointment (which would've happened regardless, due to the GOP Senate changing the rules) Trump's first 100 days have been an EPIC FAIL of broken promises.

Any attempt (on behalf of the RW Fever Swamp) to spin the narrative otherwise is partisan lunacy that is unworthy of being taken seriously.

Period.

 

Saying that Trump's biggest achievement is "stopping the left" is a lot like saying that "I wrecked my car to keep someone else from dinging the door with a shopping cart."

Talk about a lame attempt to justify Trump's 100 days without major legislative accomplishments.

 

He even had to cheat to get the SCOTUS seat; TWICE!

 

The same way the D's cheated for lower courts right?

 

In other words:

Just Trump being Trump.

 

Partisanism. Killing America, with every post.

 

Which is worse that the Republican health care failure how?

You mean like when her husband raised taxes, and we had the best economy since the '60s?

And increasing revenues to reduce the deficit would be worse for the country how?

Remember when conservatives pretended they cared about the deficit?

And reducing global warming before it sinks coastal cities would be worse for the nation how?

And having a justice that would fight for the average working American would be bad for the country how?

And having a president who's campaign administration was not in bed with Putin would be bad for the country how?

LOL, the economy was growing 2007-2010? Good lord, I thought I'd seen the limits of how far the RW fake news propaganda machine would go in fabricating lies.

And how would having an economy that was not "growing" like in 2008-2009 would be bad for the country how?

And donald inheriting a solid economy with low employment compared to the train wreck Obama inherited is bad for the economy how?

 

Remember when conservatives used to complain about the president using executive orders?

 

I completely agree. Government is out of control and doesn't give a rat's ass about the people. It only cares about it's own growth and survival. We will have a violent revolution, but not yet. I expect it in about 150 to 200 years. I don't think we'll want to be here. I hope it happens after my grandchildren are gone.

Until then, we'll gradually lose more of our freedom, similar to the slowly boiled frog story.

 

Isn't that what you've been hoping for for years?

 

If we are "wounded" now, I can't imagine what adjective to use for when Obama took office.



January 2009

Job loss: Worst in 34 years
Employers slashed 598,000 more jobs in January [2009] as unemployment rate climbed to 7.6%.

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Employers slashed another 598,000 jobs off of U.S. payrolls in January, taking the unemployment rate up to 7.6%, according to the latest government reading on the nation's battered labor market.

The latest job loss is the worst since December 1974, and brings job losses to 1.8 million in just the last three months, or half of the 3.6 million jobs that have been lost since the beginning of 2008.
http://money.cnn.com/2009/02/06/news/economy/jobs_january/index.htm

Foreclosures up a record 81% in 2008
January 15, 2009: 3:48 AM ET
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- U.S. foreclosure filings spiked by more than 81% in 2008, a record, according to a report released Thursday, and they're up 225% compared with 2006.
http://money.cnn.com/2009/01/15/real_estate/millions_in_foreclosure/

Market players were also disappointed by reports that U.S. home prices fell 8.7% year-over-year in November, U.S. housing starts fell 15.5% in December, and weekly initial jobless claims rose 62,000 to 589,000.
http://www.businessweek.com/investor/content/jan2009/pi20090122_192905.htm

On Wednesday, the 30-stock Dow Jones industrial average finished with a loss of 248.42 points, or 2.94%, to 8,200[/B].
http://www.businessweek.com/investor/content/jan2009/pi20090114_103250.htm

598,000 Jobs Shed In Brutal January
Unemployment Hits 7.6% as Downturn Picks Up Steam

The need for progress on those fronts seemed more important than ever yesterday, as the Labor Department announced that conditions worsened more than expected last month. The nation's employers shed 598,000 jobs, the most since 1974, driving the unemployment rate to 7.6 percent from 7.2 percent. If the jobless rate keeps rising at the pace it has for the past two months, it will hit double digits in summer and reach its highest rate since the Great Depression by the fall.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/06/AR2009020601156.html

GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT: FOURTH QUARTER 2008 (PRELIMINARY)
Real gross domestic product -- the output of goods and services produced by labor and property located in the United States -- decreased at an annual rate of 6.2 [later revised to 9.2] percent in the fourth quarter of 2008, (that is, from the third quarter to the fourth quarter), according to preliminary estimates released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis.
http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/gdp/2009/pdf/gdp408p.pdf

Continued Unemployment Claims at Record High
In the week ending Jan. 24, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 588,000, an increase of 3,000 from the previous week's revised figure of 585,000.
http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2009/01/continued-unemployment-claims-at-record.html

Housing Market Update - January 2009
The housing statistics for November 2008 were dire and depressing. They were so bad, in fact, that Lawrence Yun, the National Association of Realtors' chief economist, said November’s price drop was the largest the association had ever recorded and probably the worst decline since the Great Depression.
http://www.forest2market.com/blog/housing-outlook-january-2009#sthash.hHUqWRIV.dpuf

 

Not sure about @Brewskier, but I have been.

 

Actually no, it's a recent perspective I've picked up after watching ThuleanPerspective on Youtube. The left has been trying to do this for much longer, since the Kalergi plan and Cloward-Piven days.

 

I'd rather it happen sooner, while the existence of races and cultures still remain. They could continue to exist. They can't in the current system.

 

I don't recall he promised to get it all done in 100 days. BTW, how's the Gitmo shut down coming? Besides he's done all I wanted from him..............to beat crooked Hillary and he did that.

 

Yep. The good old days of whippin' slaves are long gone, right?