Wall Street Journal columnist Daniel Henninger recently reported that a number of Democrats in swing/battleground elections are starting to sound very MAGA in their campaigning.
Biden’s just called half the country “garbage”. Hoo boy! I’ll see your deplorables and up it a notch.
Of course it seems to me it’s just saying the quiet part out loud. It seems quite obvious to me that half the country all but despises the other half, and vice versa. Not sure how to resolve it.
It may be more accurate to say that the adults around Trump were responsible for ensuring that desired policies were enacted. I doubt very much that there will be many people like that in a second Trump term.
In his self-description, Kelly reminds me a lot of Gen. Alexander Haig, who had been White House chief of staff under Nixon and Ford and then was Reagan's initial Secretary of State. When Reagan was shot, Haig famously told TV reporters that “I, Al Haig, am in control here at the White House.”
Except that he wasn't. But he'd just let all of America know that he thought he was.
So Mulvaney (who, don't forget, quit the Trump administration over January 6, so he's not a Trump apologist) is right here --
but let's not undersell the difficulty of attracting people of his caliber into the Trump White House from Day 1, due to Trump's coup attempt in 2020/21. The American people elect a president, and the president sets direction, but he needs competent people to execute that direction in the huge, complicated bureaucracy that is the U.S. federal government. It's difficult, no matter how easy it may seem on paper. We saw how difficult that was during Trump's first term, when he appointed people like John Ashcroft as Attorney General and Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State, and they were so overwhelmed by the bureaucracy that they were utterly ineffective.
Will Trump be able to get people as competent as Mike Pompeo (who replaced Tillerson) or Bill Barr (who replaced Ashcroft) in a second term, after ending his first term in such disarray?
Nope, sorry. Ain't buying it. The most bigoted, angry, cruel, and rights-stealing people out there are denizens of the Left. Who should not be confused or conflated with liberals.
Biden’s just called half the country “garbage”. Hoo boy! I’ll see your deplorables and up it a notch.
Of course it seems to me it’s just saying the quiet part out loud. It seems quite obvious to me that half the country all but despises the other half, and vice versa. Not sure how to resolve it.
Perfect timing on his part.
It may be more accurate to say that the adults around Trump were responsible for ensuring that desired policies were enacted. I doubt very much that there will be many people like that in a second Trump term.
Maybe, maybe not. A lot of the notion that "adults" managed Trump may be projection.
Mick Mulvaney just either threw some shade or pulled back the curtain a bit on John Kelly.
"Kelly has always seen the role we shared, that of White House chief of staff, differently than I.
We both knew we were the only ones in the West Wing whose job it was to tell the president things he didn’t want to hear.
But the similarities ended there.
I saw the role as one that would enable the president to be as successful as possible in fulfilling the agenda that got him elected.
Kelly saw the job as that of a self-appointed overseer, charged with protecting the country against a president that those same people had elected.
I saw the role as the chief of the staff.
Kelly saw it as the chief of the president."
https://nypost.com/2024/10/29/opinion/i-was-trumps-chief-of-staff-hitler-claims-are-deranged/
As to your doubt - there are a lot of adult-sounding people lining up to work for the Trump administration should he win.
In his self-description, Kelly reminds me a lot of Gen. Alexander Haig, who had been White House chief of staff under Nixon and Ford and then was Reagan's initial Secretary of State. When Reagan was shot, Haig famously told TV reporters that “I, Al Haig, am in control here at the White House.”
Except that he wasn't. But he'd just let all of America know that he thought he was.
So Mulvaney (who, don't forget, quit the Trump administration over January 6, so he's not a Trump apologist) is right here --
but let's not undersell the difficulty of attracting people of his caliber into the Trump White House from Day 1, due to Trump's coup attempt in 2020/21. The American people elect a president, and the president sets direction, but he needs competent people to execute that direction in the huge, complicated bureaucracy that is the U.S. federal government. It's difficult, no matter how easy it may seem on paper. We saw how difficult that was during Trump's first term, when he appointed people like John Ashcroft as Attorney General and Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State, and they were so overwhelmed by the bureaucracy that they were utterly ineffective.
Will Trump be able to get people as competent as Mike Pompeo (who replaced Tillerson) or Bill Barr (who replaced Ashcroft) in a second term, after ending his first term in such disarray?
Trump apparently doesn't care.
We shall see.
An Open Letter to Your Friend or Relative Planning to Vote for Trump:
Your Vote for Trump Is an Endorsement of Bigotry, Cruelty, and the Erosion of Rights—No Matter the Reason You Give.
https://substack.com/home/post/p-150725410?r=4d7sow&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Nope, sorry. Ain't buying it. The most bigoted, angry, cruel, and rights-stealing people out there are denizens of the Left. Who should not be confused or conflated with liberals.