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At the midpoint of Donald Trump's first term, historians have struggled to detect the kind of virtues that offset his predecessors' vices: the infectious optimism of Reagan; the inspirational rhetoric of JFK; the legislative smarts of LBJ; or the governing pragmatism of Nixon.
not wellHow will history judge President Trump?
How will history judge President Trump? | BBC
Seriously, have Trump showed any presidential virtues thus far?
How will history judge President Trump? | BBC
Seriously, have Trump showed any presidential virtues thus far?
This America First president is himself an American first. Indeed, a further reason for the disdain of historians is because, historically speaking, his administration has been like no other. The chaos of staff turnover - two secretaries of state, two secretaries of defence, two attorneys general, three White House chiefs of staff, and a revolving door of senior West Wing aides. The foreign policy by tweet. The chumminess with adversarial authoritarian leaders, such as Kim Jong-un and Vladimir Putin. The blurring of ethical lines supposedly separating the Trump White House from the Trump business empire. The Russia collusion investigation, which has raised questions, so far unsettled, about his true allegiance.
Well, one virtue is that he has tried to keep his promises despite roadblocks from both his and the opposition's Party politics.
Imagine how successful he would have been and how high his rating could have been if he didn't have to deal with MSN propaganda, tepid support from Paul Ryan in Congress, and having to deal with Democrat and RINO Senators?
It is easy to say now that he won't fare well...but how history may still see him when viewed with the lens of hindsight? He just might do better then some think. :shrug:
On a side note, while Obama is being lionized today by the Left, history may view him in a less favorable light based on his actual accomplishments, or lack thereof.
With each bizarre press encounter and each ALL CAPS tweet, it can sometimes feel as if America is living through some historical counterfactual. It is as if the right-wing populist Pat Buchanan managed to beat George Herbert Walker Bush to the Republican presidential nomination in 1992 and, on the strength of his fiery culture war speech to the GOP convention, went on to beat Bill Clinton. Buchanan launched his insurgent campaign with a plea to put "America First" and used the mantra "Make America Great Again." Or maybe the Trump presidency is what a Perot administration might have looked like. Ross Perot, who also sought the presidency in 1992, was another populist billionaire and deep state conspiracy theorist. Yet even Buchanan and Perot, one suspects, would have been more orthodox.
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