@Hoodat
Donald Trump is not a "big-government liberal". His first term ushered in the largest reduction in government regulations, tax breaks, trade renegotiations ---- all designed to expand the private, not public, economy.
He imposed tariffs that increased regulation and cost consumers more for the items they purchase.
He wanted two major expenditures during his first term: Rebuilding the US Armed Forces --- from scratch --- everything from bullets to weaponry to implementing technologies for the 21st Century. He planned on using the Reagan strategy of expanding the economy to address the added debt ---- his secondary reason for his focus on national economic growth referenced above.
In four years of Trump, Defense spending increased 24% while overall spending increased 94%. Fact.
As for Reagan, Trump criticized Reagan for both his tax cuts and his defense buildup (which you already knew). So it is plain dishonest for you to make the comparison knowing ahead of time that it was false.
Then came COVID and the CARES Act of 2020.
Which Trump signed off on.
But, before you go all knee-jerk here, remember that few, including the most conservative governor in all of recorded history, stood in clarion opposition to the Act.
A Governor has no voice when it comes to Federal legislation. But then you knew that already. So to imply that DeSantis supported passage of the CARES Act is simply dishonest. But you knew that, too. Yet did it anyway.
If Republicans/Conservatives had fought the election fraud of 2020
Hold on. Trump had already increased federal spending by 94% before the 2020 election even got here. And it is Trump's own Justice Department that should have taken the lead on blocking States from violating their own election laws. But Trump was simply too incompetent to lead. His ego took over. His only answer was to hold more rallies.
And for the record, there were Conservatives in Georgia fighting it. They were calling out illegalities that were taking place in Georgia months and months before the election. And Trump did nothing. Not a damn thing. Because he didn't give a damn about what Conservatives were saying. Never has. But then you knew that already.
Trump would have overseen our recovery from COVID ---- and it would have been real, swift and lasting.
We didn't need a recovery from Covid. We needed a recovery from government printing up money to pay people not to work.
But, IMO, for too many fighting the fraud meant saving Trump and somewhere along the line it was decided even Biden was preferable to *that*.
And, here we are.
@DCPatriot
The 'Fight the fraud' strategy was a pathetic legal strategy based solely on the power of Trump's ego. If Trump had gone after the illegalities instead of seeking some judge to declare him the winner, just because he is Trump, then the electoral process might have been cleaned up. But Trump didn't give a damn about any of that. He is a complete idiot when it comes to law, legality, and the Constitution. And because of that, he is no longer in office as well as a lot of other Republicans who were turned out because of him.
