09-29-2020, 07:36 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-29-2020, 07:50 PM by Eric the Green.)
I would give him #10, and not #11 (no major success, or failure, in foreign affairs, as Lichtman says). The UAE deal is nothing but economic trade deals. Nothing burger.
#7 is hard to call, since he achieved no real legislative change, other than to reduce Obamacare somewhat and continue the Bush/Reagan tax policy. But he is turning the Courts into dens of reaction, so I guess I gotta give him that one now, especially assuming he gets Barrett through. Ginsburg's death was a real present for him and his fellow kooks. I wonder if this new nomination will actually help or hurt him in November, though. But if I give Trump Key 7, then I am also in agreement with Lichtman as well as Brower.
#2 Weld I don't consider a significant challenge, and Drump won his primary easily indeed. So I have no trouble with Lichtman's ruling of true on this one. The Lincoln Brigades don't seem to be having any effect at all on Trump's poll numbers among Republicans.
So Lichtman's ruling of 7 false keys stands, in my view.
#7 is hard to call, since he achieved no real legislative change, other than to reduce Obamacare somewhat and continue the Bush/Reagan tax policy. But he is turning the Courts into dens of reaction, so I guess I gotta give him that one now, especially assuming he gets Barrett through. Ginsburg's death was a real present for him and his fellow kooks. I wonder if this new nomination will actually help or hurt him in November, though. But if I give Trump Key 7, then I am also in agreement with Lichtman as well as Brower.
#2 Weld I don't consider a significant challenge, and Drump won his primary easily indeed. So I have no trouble with Lichtman's ruling of true on this one. The Lincoln Brigades don't seem to be having any effect at all on Trump's poll numbers among Republicans.
So Lichtman's ruling of 7 false keys stands, in my view.