The
target of the vehement protests, over-the-top opposition, and hyperbolic media
criticism of the Trump Administration, is not the current occupant of the Oval
Office. It is, instead, the Constitutional practice of government.
Little
discussed is the odd level of verbal violence against a President who is most
certainly not an ideologue. His major policy thrusts, both as a candidate and
as an elected leader, include:
§ Replacing a health care policy which has demonstrably failed
(the dirty little secret of the 2016 campaign was that no matter who got
elected, Obamacare was going to have to drastically change.)
§ Restoring a military that had been dangerously and very
obviously depleted, at a time when adversaries across the globe had
dramatically strengthened theirs.
§ Encouraging American allies to pay a more equitable share of
their own defense needs
§ restoring middle-income job growth.
§ reforming taxes and regulations so that more industry would
remain within the U.S.
§ Enforcing already existing immigration laws.
§ Reducing regulations that hamper the creation or survival of
businesses.
These
could hardly be called arch-conservative. If anything, Donald Trump both
campaigned and, in the brief period he has been in office, governed as a
pragmatist. Lately, his criticism has been focused as much on conservatives in
Congress as on Democrats. Trump came to office in the aftermath of a
demonstrably failed presidency.
Under
Obama, The U.S. essentially divested itself of its role as the world’s dominant
superpower, leading to greater threats across the globe. in Asia, China’s
belligerence dramatically increased. in Eastern Europe, Russia engaged in the
largest invasion since World War 2. Throughout the Islamic world, conditions
deteriorated. ISIS rose to prominence due to Obama’s premature withdrawal of
American troops from Iraq. Libya descended into chaos following the still
unexplained drive to oust Gaddafi. Iran’s power and influence expanded
dramatically. The Taliban was positioned to make a major comeback in
Afghanistan. Terrorist attacks became commonplace occurrences throughout the
world.
At
home, Obama’s policies and actions led to an economy mired in the doldrums,
racial animosity at a level not seen in decades, and a near doubling of the
national debt with nothing gained after all those dollars spent, as well as the
worse job participation rate in decades. The national infrastructure continued
to crumble.
Stunning
scandals took place. Whole agencies of the government, especially the
IRS, were unlawfully used for partisan purposes. An American ambassador
was killed without any attempt to rescue him or to punish the perpetrators. The
U.S. Secretary of State’s family personally profited from the sale of uranium,
the basic ingredient of atomic bombs, to Russia.
It
was reasonable to assume that in the aftermath of those eight difficult years,
the public mood would have been at least willing to give the new leader at
least a brief honeymoon. But long before Trump even took office, a level of
unprecedented and near-hysterical opposition was promoted by much of the media,
academia, some Democrat Party leaders, and the financiers of hard-left causes.
One
explanation for the unusual and extreme alteration in the nature of American
politics has been the takeover of the Democrat Party by untraditional forces.
The party of Kennedy, Truman, indeed even FDR, no longer exists in a viable
form. Those types of leaders have been replaced by extremists such as
former Obama Labor Department Secretary Tom Perez, the new DNC Chair, and
Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison, the deputy chair, and other individuals such as
NYC Mayor Mike de Blasio.
Perez
is an extremist who refused, while at the Department of Justice, to prosecute a
clear-cut case of voter intimidation against those not identified as Obama
voters. The Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Iain Murray, in a National
Review article, notes that Perez’s……rewriting of U.S. labor law is probably the
most fundamental attack on the free-enterprise system going on at present…If he
has his way, we won’t just revert to the 1930s. We’ll do things that even
Franklin Roosevelt couldn’t do, like eliminate vast numbers of
independent-contractor jobs and unionize those that remain.
Perez
selected Keith Ellison as his deputy chair. Ellison was noted for his bizarre
statements about the 9/11 attacks, suggesting that President Bush (43) used the
terrorist assault to copy Adolph Hitler’s infamous Reichstag Fire strategy to
destroy his opponents. Ellison has also been tied to anti-Semitic
positions. His 2010 comments about Israel led to a demand by the
Anti-Defamation League that he be disqualified from being appointed to federal
office.
NYC
Mayor de Blasio was an ardent supporter of Nicaragua’s Marxist Sandinista
government in the 1980s. He describes himself as an advocate of “democratic
socialism” and was executive director of the New York branch of the
pro-socialist New Party.
As
party leaders, they are not far from the worrisome example set by President
Obama. Obama abused federal agencies for partisan purposes, stood U.S.
foreign policy on its head, and took advice from individuals such as Bill
Ayers, a founder of the internationally supported terrorist Weather Underground
Organization.
Progressive
politicians such as Perez, Ellison and de Blasio are at the forefront of
replacing rational, peaceful political discourse with a new atmosphere that
encourages continual street protests that erupt into violence, including those
levied against college campus speakers that don’t agree with the prevailing
left-wing orthodoxy.
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