Except...that's not why people were "beating on you". You were, and are, criticized because you've blinded yourself to the conservative manner in which President Trump conducted himself...the truth being, Reagan himself could not have gotten a more conservative agenda pushed through than Trump did.
Pushed through? 'Pushed through' what? D00d. *NONE* of it was 'pushed through'. And nearly all of it is all *gone*. As predicted.
And let's be clear....no conservative could have forced through the kind of balanced budget policy you are fixated upon...politics is the art of the possible, and we have to have the strategic acumen to understand what CAN be achieved...its all too easy to proclaim what we want and then be disgruntled when we don't get EVERYTHING we hope for. But the truth is, we as conservatives can't get EVERYTHING we want...Presidents are not dictators, they are influencers, when it comes to legislation.
No, I have much to bitch about besides a balanced budget - It is just the most indefensible and undeniable - and STILL there are folks right here that say his economic policies were golden and the stuff of Conservatism - Which they most certainly are NOT.
And it is funny how far left liberals very often get what they want - Not watered down, not by EO - But straight up passed as law. So what you preach as the 'art of the possible' is bullcrap. What it is is 'the art of making people vote for you even though you're not giving them anything'.
Liberalism is winning because it has no opposition. FACT.
Trump faced unparalleled opposition from the Socio-fascists...while being undermined by many of his fellow conservatives (not to mention RINO's)....
blah, blah, martyr, blah, blah...
and still got 500 miles of border wall in place,
At least 400 of which was already slated for repair... And you make it sound like it was 500 miles of contiguous fence - which it is not - and as useless as it was when he started... Easy enough to go around... Easy enough, with a pickup and a set of torches, to cut and go right through, because the budget to arm and patrol said fence was not written in stone. SMOKE.
reduced immigration significantly,
According to right-leaning sources. I don't know if that is true or not. But even if it is, and creditable, which I will give you for the sake of the argument, it was still temporary, and is now *GONE*. And still you sing praises like it was an accomplishment.
appointed a wide swath of conservative justices across the judiciary (and yes, not every pick pans out...as has always been the case with Presidential appointees), and put in place a slew of other conservative agenda items...not to mention defeated ISIS and achieved the Abraham accords all while pulling our troops back from numerous unproductive deployments.
Again, mostly all *GONE* like a fart in the night.
The point here being...not to argue with you issue by issue...but to state the obvious fact that President Trump was the diametric opposite of the current administration in nearly every way conceivable and you've been too blinded by dislike for the man to perceive it. THAT is what you've been "beaten on" for.
No, he is not.
He made an image of that, and all y'all fell for it. In the mean time, everything he did that could be called conservative was temporary... but everything he did that was liberal was written into law - Understand that. Remove your assumption of (the cause of) my bias and actually understand that.
Bottom line: You won nothing. You got nothing. And the ball was moved to the left.
Understand that and take off the orange colored glasses.
