I'm not down with him close to being a great president. I got about half of what I wanted policy-wise.
But character counts. And Trump has no character. You can't separate that from whatever policy successes he had. Much of what could have been done by other Republicans.
Cruz would have done better. No ridiculous tariffs or trade wars. Cruz would have understood the deficit of which Trump had no understanding. And of course no stupid tweets and punching down at ankle-biters.
Too late now.
Well, I am an avid Cruz supporter and I voted for him in the primaries and was very disgusted with Trump's behavior towards Cruz and was extremely disappointed when Trump became the nominee.
I was overwhelmingly surprised as most people I think were, when Trump beat Hillary.
With that being stated, the left would have done the same thing to Cruz if he was elected President; they hate him as well. I believe they would have accused him of the same bogus Russian collusion, etc.
We'll never know how Cruz would have reacted or if he would have been able to withstand all the mudslinging. Whether Cruz or any other Republican could have done any better is really irrelevant because what we are facing now is socialism.
IMHO Trump had some character flaws, I take issue with some of the backpedaling that he did and take issue with some of the things he didn't do.
I believe this election was absolutely stolen. Our freedom of speech is being trampled on. The integrity of our ballot box is gone.
Trump re-elected this wouldn't be happening. They needed him gone to implement socialism and in order to do that they had to silence the masses he represented.
As I've always stated....Trump is/was who was standing between us and socialism. Character flaws and all ... he stood for the voice of the people.
Biden/Harris socialism is coming.