I tire of both the EverTrumper and NeverTrumper crowd. Not everything he does is 33rd dimensional chess, or is he a perpetual dastardly sonofabitch. He's done good things and he's screwed up royally. That's called reality, which is where those of us in adult land live.
What I do get rankled up about is the constant afterthought given to Ryan and McConnell, much like this article does, to focus on Trump. Separate but equal is how our govt is designed. If you can't get your head around that, maybe reevaluate your conservatism. Trump should have never been put into a position to sign that bill, and while he's culpable, foisting something on him like that while the clock is ticking is equally culpable.
There’s no question Trump has done some good things (e.g., regulations, judges, ISIS) and some bad things (e.g., huge deficit spending, Omni Spending Bill, tariffs). I’d love to see more objectivity by both Ever Trumpers and Never Trumpers; however, I think the President of the United States deserves a disproportionate amount of the blame/credit by the nature of the leadership position he holds.
This is even more true in Trump’s case though because he ran on being the “great deal maker†and “only I can fix it†guy and that he was going to “drain the swampâ€. He’s had ample opportunity to make deals from “repeal and replace†to DACA yet he’s come up small on “great deal making†IMO. This was an area I had really hoped he could excel in: getting disparate parties together and creatively finding out-of-the-box solutions for them to reach consensus during negotiations. Unfortunately it doesn't appear to me that he has either the attention span or the attention to detail to actually be a great "deal maker".
He apparently found out how bad the Omnibus Spending Bill was after signing it by watching TV. Yikes! Had he vetoed the Omnibus Spending Bill, then he could have been the “only I can fix it†guy to me yet he signed that albatross. As for the swamp, is it being drained or is it more swampy under his Administration? There’s an awful lot of excess spending, stupid travel, and lobbyists still freely enjoying a dip in the swamp IMO. Sure, McConnell and Ryan should get plenty of blame, but they didn’t run on being the only guy who can fix DC. The leader of the Republican Party current occupant of the White House ran on that, and DC certainly doesn’t seem fixed to me or even on a path to being fixed.
