Friday, 9 March 2018

Trump triangulates early

Or, maybe, he will succeed in avoiding the wipeouts that hit most of his modern predecessors in their first midterms.

We have watched with interest and amusement as Republicans who barked about Barack Obama’s naïve, amateuristic approach to policy – particularly on the matter of direct negotiations with rogue nation tin pots like Kim Jong Un – develop a strange new respect for Trump’s fresh thinking on the subject.

The Democrat was a dilatant but the Republican is a fresh thinker, you see…

The same for slapping tariffs on foreign-made steel and aluminum. Many of the same folks who found Obama’s preference for solar panel manufacturers like Solyndra over more traditional businesses to be an unacceptable government intervention have a strange new respect for picking winners and losers.

They mocked Obama for trying to engineer the economy of the future but are noticeably muted in their complaints about Trump trying to reanimate the economy of the past.


Source : foxnews

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