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Title: Memo to Trump: ‘Action This Day!’
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URL Source: http://www.vdare.com/articles/memo-to-trump-action-this-day
Published: Nov 11, 2016
Author: Patrick J. Buchanan
Post Date: 2016-11-11 00:41:39 by nativist nationalist
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Views: 2393
Comments: 6
“In victory, magnanimity!” said Winston Churchill. Donald Trump should be magnanimous and gracious toward those whom he defeated this week, but his first duty is to keep faith with those who put their faith in him. The protests, riots and violence that have attended his triumph in city after city should only serve to steel his resolve. As for promptings that he “reach out” and “reassure” those upset by his victory, and trim or temper his agenda to pacify them, Trump should reject the poisoned chalice. This is the same old con. Trump should take as models the Democrats FDR and LBJ. Franklin Roosevelt, who had savaged Herbert Hoover as a big spender, launched his own New Deal in his first 100 days. History now hails his initiative and resolve. Lyndon Johnson exploited his landslide over Barry Goldwater in 1964 to erect his Great Society in 1965: the Voting Rights Act, Medicare and Medicaid. He compromised on nothing, and got it all. Even those who turned on him for Vietnam still celebrate his domestic achievements. President Nixon’s great regret was that he did not bomb Hanoi and mine Haiphong in 1969—instead of waiting until 1972—and bring the Vietnam War to an earlier end and with fewer U.S. casualties. Nixon’s decision not to inflame the social and political crisis of the ’60s by rolling back the Great Society bought him nothing. He was rewarded with media-backed mass demonstrations in 1969 to break his presidency and bring about an American defeat in Vietnam. “Action this day!” was the scribbled command of Prime Minister Churchill on his notepads in World War II. This should be the motto of the first months of a Trump presidency. For the historic opportunity he and the Republican Party have been given by his stunning and unanticipated victory of Nov. 8 will not last long. His adversaries and enemies in politics and press are only temporarily dazed and reeling. This great opening should be exploited now. Few anticipated Tuesday morning what we would have today: a decapitated Democratic Party, with the Obamas and Clintons gone or going, Joe Biden with them, no national leader rising, and only the power of obstruction, of which the nation has had enough. The GOP, however, on Jan. 20, will control both Houses of Congress and the White House, with the real possibility of remaking the Supreme Court in the image of the late Justice Antonin Scalia. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan have indicated they are willing to work with President Trump. There is nothing to prevent the new GOP from writing history. In his first months, Trump could put a seal on American politics as indelible as that left by Ronald Reagan. A partial agenda: First, he should ignore any importunings by President Obama to permit passage of the Trans-Pacific Partnership in a lame-duck session—and let the trade deal sink by year’s end. On Jan. 20, he should have vetted and ready to nominate to the high court a brilliant constitutionalist and strict constructionist. He should act to end interference with the Dakota Access pipeline and call on Congress to re-enact legislation, vetoed by Obama, to finish the Keystone XL pipeline. Then he should repeal all Obama regulations that unnecessarily restrict the production of the oil, gas and clean coal necessary to make America energy independent again. Folks in Pennsylvania, southeast Ohio, Kentucky and West Virginia should be shown, by executive action, that Trump is a man of his word. And when the mines open again, he should be there. He should order new actions to seal the Southern border, start the wall and begin visible deportations of felons who are in the country illegally. With a new education secretary, he should announce White House intent to work for repeal of Common Core and announce the introduction of legislation to put federal resources behind the charter schools that have proven to be a godsend to inner-city black children. He should propose an immediate tax cut for U.S. corporations, with $2 to $3 trillion in unrepatriated profits abroad, who will bring the money home and invest it in America, to the benefit of our economy and our Treasury. He should take the president’s phone and pen and begin the rewriting or repeal of every Obama executive order that does not comport with the national interest or political philosophy of the GOP. Trump should announce a date soon for repeal and replacement of Obamacare and introduction of his new tax-and-trade legislation to bring back manufacturing and create American jobs. Donald Trump said in his campaign that that this is America’s last chance. If we lose this one, he said, we lose the country. The president-elect should ignore his more cautious counselors, and act with the urgency of his declared beliefs. Poster Comment: Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.
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#1. To: nativist nationalist (#0)
Drink from the chalice with the brew that is true. I agree. He should drive his agenda aggressively. The demoncrats already started their 2018 mid term election campaign with the rioting. Trump needs to ram through all the most controversial policies within the next year. He has a GOP controlled Congress. Get er done.
Donald Trump should be magnanimous and gracious toward those whom he defeated this week Not according to some LFers. A government strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them. Fixed it: He should take the president’s phone and pen and begin the rewriting or repeal of every Obama executive order that does not comport with the national interest or political philosophy of President Donald Trump. The GOP did not win this election. Donald Trump won this election and saved the GOP. Donald Trump has different philosophies than the GOP, and Donald Trump must impose his philosophies on the GOP and remake it in his image. To wit: Donald Trump believes in universal health insurance, for all, and that it be affordable. Obamacare failed because it was badly thought out and not affordable. The GOP would like to repeal it and go back to whatever. That is not Donald Trump's philosophy. Donald Trump demands the repeal of Obamacare and it's REPLACEMENT with a national universal health insurance system, covering everybody, that works. That will probably mean spending more money on it. The GOP is going to have to adopt President Trump's position as it's own. Donald Trump believes in peace with Russia, pulling forces back from the Russian border, allying with Russia against ISIS, striking a grand deal in the Middle East, and de-emphasizing NATO. The GOP stands for the opposite. It is going to have to change. Donald Trump believes in a wall and deportations. The GOP has stood for a relaxed border, non-enforcement, and efforts to gradually work in some sort of amnesty, in order to gain the Hispanic vote. The GOP is going to have to change its position to reflect Trump's. Trump believes that manufacturing jobs have to be brought back to America, and that American companies that leave to set up factories abroad should be slapped with 35% tarriffs. He is a protectionist because he thinks that American jobs come first. The GOP completely disagrees with him on this. Trump knows that bringing manufacturing back is the only way to bring back jobs. He is going to refuse the TPP treaty, which the GOP wants. He is going to renegotiate NAFTA, and if the Mexicans won't renegotiate it, he'll terminate it. The GOP supports NAFTA. The GOP supports the carried interest deduction for rich financiers. Trump hates that deduction and wants to kill it. Most importantly of all, Trump does not believe in Reaganomics, trickle-down economics. He believes in policies aimed right at benefiting the working class and the lower middle class. This is emphatically NOT a GOP position. It is an FDR/LBJ/traditional Democrat position. The Democrats have become the party of Goldman Sachs and Wall Street. Trump has singlehandedly made HIS election about the factory workers. That means that the GOP, if it wants to keep winning, will have to discard ITS economic and social model - the Democrats are really now that - and replace it with Trump's. Trump's Republican Party is a blue-collar/middle class party, NOT a trickle- down party. Entrepreneurs and hedge-fund guys can be Republicans, of course, but their taxes will go up, and their costs of labor will go up, because Trump is going to make them stay in America and employ Americans, at higher wages than they want to pay. And he's going to make sure that everybody has health care. The GOP did not win. Trump won and saved the GOP. But now Trump is the leader, and that means that the GOP economic philosophy will change to a more working-class philosophy, which is one of deregulation of business COUPLED WITH government support and subsidies of universal health care, and punitive measures against businesses that hire illegals or seek to offshore to avoid hiring Americans at high American wages. It's not a rich man's party anymore. Trumpism removes the option for the rich to escape the US and exploit cheap labor to gain profit. American businesses will have the US market protected for them, and will have lower taxes and much less regulation, but they will give back a substantial amount of the tax and regulatory savings as higher salaries and benefits for American workers, which they will be forced to hire. That is Trumpism. And that is what the GOP is going to have to knuckle under and get behind, or they will be engaged in a perpetual war with President Trump that they will lose, because the people back Trump, not the GOP. If they fight Trump TOO hard, Trump can do just exactly what Bloomberg did, which is to go Independent and work with Democrats to get his model through. The GOP didn't win. Trump won. The GOP doesn't get to keep its old philosophy. They have to change it to fit Trump's, and Trump agrees with Bernie Sanders on the need to employ Americans first, to restrict free trade in order to do that, and to have universal health insurance, subsidized by the government. That is now the GOP position, if the GOP wants to survive. If the GOP Congressman insist on their old positions, Trump will make alliances with the Democrats and override the GOP. He'll be popular and re-elected, and the GOP will dwindle. The GOP cannot resist Trump. He won. Their ideas lost. They'll get their judges, their conservatism, their deregulation. But Cold War with Russia is over. And we will have universal health care. And unlimited free trade and offshoring are over. When Trump told GM that if they relocated a factory in Mexico he would slap a 35% tarriff on cars imported from Mexico, he meant it. The economic part of Trumpism will either replace the GOP stance, or it will destroy it. Trump won the election. The GOP will win if it obeys Trump. If it follows Romney into resistance, he will find allies from the Left to replace the enemies on the right. He's going to have it his way, because the people want his lie. So, GOP, change your mind and get in line behind your leader. Do that, and you'll have a Republican FDR who will lead you to 80 years of power. Fight him, and you'll lose, even as HE wins re-election.
To get universal health care and protection of American industry through Congress, Trump may well need Democrat support if the GOP resists him. Trump is not going to attack Democrats. He's going to try to work with them. Trump's big constituency is blue collar workers. He is not going to break faith with them. He did not PRETEND to be for them, only to get power for his party and then do as he pleases. That's the way the Democrats treat blacks. Trump intends to make deep inroads into the BLACK vote in his re- election, by actually DELIVERING THE GOODS on us jobs to the working class. And he's going to get universal health care, subsidized. He'll deregulate and detax to make business easier and stronger, BUT he will COMPEL American businesses to hire Americans, at higher wages, and he will punish American businesses that try to offshore. His deregulation is about putting blue collar America back to work, and getting them health care, not making the business class rich. They'll get richer, from the business, but most of the profits will go into the salaries of Americans. He is not aiming at pleasing the same people as Reagan. Trumpism is aimed at taking the blue collar and blacks and bringing them into a party that is aimed at what is best for AMERICANS. And that may put him at odds with many Republicans in Congress.
The GOP did not win. Trump won and saved the GOP. But now Trump is the leader, and that means that the GOP economic philosophy will change to a more working-class philosophy... Very good observations. Over the past year I've posted a number of articles under "The Establishments war on Donald Trump" category. To make the changes stick we will need Donald Trump's war on the Establishment. Non auro, sed ferro, recuperando est patria
And absolutely NO back peddling.
As for promptings that he “reach out” and “reassure” those upset by his victory, and trim or temper his agenda to pacify them, Trump should reject the poisoned chalice. This is the same old con.
#2. To: nativist nationalist (#0)
“In victory, magnanimity!” said Winston Churchill.
#3. To: nativist nationalist (#0)
He should take the president’s phone and pen and begin the rewriting or repeal of every Obama executive order that does not comport with the national interest or political philosophy of the GOP.
#4. To: redleghunter (#1)
#5. To: Vicomte13 (#3)
Trump's Republican Party is a blue-collar/middle class party, NOT a trickle- down party...
#6. To: nativist nationalist (#0)
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