When i voted for him the 1st time i kept the paper ticket in my wallet because if he didnt do what he said he was gonna do i was gonna burn it. It was an apprehensive vote. Now 4 yrs later i like him most because of his action not necessarily his words. If this comes to pass he will be the most successful one term president in our nations history.
100% on board. His policies were all America and they are excellent policies. His detractors would be wise to study and understand this. It is irrefutable.
So Trump lost my respect pretty early on when he started dropping bombs on Syria, killing civilians, over what was clearly, and obviously so, fraudulent claims of a chemical weapons attack. That alone made him a mass murderer in my eyes, never mind his overt support for the Saudi slaughter going on in Yemen. He got into office under the pretense of draining the swamp, then loaded his cabinet with swamp creatures and did exactly what they wanted him to do.
But that's not why I say he's all talk. Mass censorship, lockdowns and violent communist demonstrations all over the country are definitely NOT American culture or American policy. Trump tweeted, Twitter censored and the country was turned upside down. Trump did nothing significant to deter any of it.
It's not that Trump was a really bad president. But this was a time when we needed a strong president, an exceptional president, and given the 2016 election one could be forgiven for expecting an exceptional president. Trump had options, real options. But he needed the support of his cabinet to back his play, which he had no hope of getting because he appointed enemies of the people as his closest advisors. He also needed friends in Congress of which he made precious few.
An exceptional president would have had that backing, those friends and more. We all knew we were fighting for the soul of the republic. Hell, Trump ran on that ideal. I'm pretty sure he said exactly that in one of his speeches. But he was weak, or ran afoul of his ego, or ... something. He definitely was not the strong president we needed.
What were his options? Trump, by himself, represents a branch of the federal government. He has the power and authority to interpret the US Constitution and act on that interpretation, the same as Congress and more than SCOTUS. An executive order is an interpretation by the president of the law applied as to the Constitution. That is backed by a presidential finding which is an interpretation of the Constitution by the president as applied to existing circumstances.
He has the power, even now, to find that censorship by large social media companies represent a direct infringement on the First Amendment and to then to order they stop doing so, and to shut them down if they refuse to comply. He should have done this in 2017, long before he dropped the first bomb on Syria.
He has the power to find that violent communist uprisings in democrat strongholds are a threat to national security, and shut them down when the states refuse to do so. He also has the power, as Obama found, to declare any person, US citizen or not, an enemy of the state and order them arrested or killed. Good bye George Soros.
He has the power to find that lockdowns violate the rights of the People as well as the Constitution. He may not have the power to block them, but he could have made things very difficult for the various state governors. Instead he gave Fauci free rein to say whatever he wanted to the media regardless of Trump's tweets, and did absolutely nothing against the governors wreaking havoc on their citizens, their rights and their lively hoods.
He would have been impeached for any of these orders, no doubt. But if he had surrounded himself with patriots instead of swamp creatures, he could have weathered the storm. Now it's too late for anything but theatrics.