dirty022
Elite
What one could actually do....how about anything? He did nothing to disrupt the deep state apparatus, to the contrary, he helped entrench it further. One deep state appointment after another. He bragged about his judges, fact is, those were Mitch McConnell's judges, not Trump's. If anyone else had made an appointment like Chris Wray, virtually everyone ITT would be calling them a loser and/or a globalist.
There are really only 2 answers: incompetence (my argument) or acquiescence (Cincinnati's belief). "He was a great president but the swamp was too deep" isn't a viable answer. One bad decision after another has to be answered for. It was Trump, not George Bush, who made Bill Barr AG again, endorsed Ronna Romney and Kevin McCarthy, made his "good friend" (Trump's words, not mine) Mark Milley CJCS, and on and on. One of his first appointments was Rience Priebus. Rience. Freaking. Priebus. He complains to this day about some of those people, never acknowledging even once that he was the one who made the mistakes. And the solution of almost everyone ITT is to double down on the guy who did all that?
He did nothing for election security, in spite of telling us for a decade it was a huge issue. He had been on twitter about it going back to the 2012 election. His solution? Do nothing. Put a do-nothing AG over the DOJ and I'm sure it'll just magically fix itself. He and his campaign were prepared for nothing that happened on Nov. 3, 2020.
To say nothing of Trump biting on Fauci's line like a hungry fish. Yeah, let's trust the nation to this lifelong globalist who had a terrible record, and appears to have been connected to the creation of the virus.
He didn't take the deep state down. He didn't even try. He could've made one bulldog interim appointment after another until Paul Ryan and Kevin McCarthy would've had no choice but give him what he wanted, instead Trump gave them who they wanted, Gina Haspel and her ilk.
All you folks pining for Trump are not being honest about his legacy. Yes, he faced unprecedented attacks and opposition and gave us the best tax cut in American history. Facing that opposition with iron skin and going to war with the DS was supposed to be what he was made for. Instead, the deep state had their way with him and tossed him aside as easily as they did Nixon.
I agree with most of your argument. What doesn't wash is the conserted effort by every entity we know that is against him and his message. The alternative to a Trump or Desantis administration isn't pretty. You know this as does most on this board. I'm willing to give a benefit of the doubt and see how it works out. At the same time I'm making plans for the alternative.