Quote:If you grade him on tax cuts, he gets an A too.
He also promised to balance the budget. That’s what I graded him and all presidents on until 2002, when I gave up on the idea as hopeless.
Quote:No one thinks it's likely Trump would withdraw from NATO or let Japan or South Korea get nuclear weapons;
I don’t either.
Quote:they would be incompatible with his core promise of making America great again.
No they are not.
Quote:..my judgement is that you would be more likely to have changed your mind realized those were stupid ideas
They are not stupid ideas, Trump is right. I just don’t think the idea is important enough to him to actually pursue.
Quote:He's talked about lots of things that were not promises. Tariffs were one of them.
He presented himself as opposed to free trade. That means tariffs. Otherwise it’s all talk. This country was built on tariffs. American became great on the strength of those tariffs. Since they were withdrawn America has become progressively weaker and weaker.
Quote:Trump is not the first choice of us Austrian Tea Party folks; for most of us, Cruz was. We don't necessarily expect Trump to follow our policies in every respect. Certainly the "do nothing" response worked great in 1920 and that's what we would hope for, but I certainly don't view it as a promise.
I never said it was a promise. But with the Tea Party caucus it will be hard to get a Republican majority for any action, unless Trump goes all out to sell it. All I am asking is that he not make the effort. Hold rallies instead.