Report Card for Donald Trump

[Eric the Green]

(12-06-2016, 12:01 AM)Warren Dew Wrote: If you wanted to reduce the deficit in 1980, you should have voted for Anderson.  The economic issues for the Reagan administration were inflation (A+, few expected inflation to end) and unemployment (B).  The foreign policy promise was to get tough with the Soviets (A+, no one expected the stage to be set actually to defeat the Soviet Union).

Also, how are people getting more grades than items?

I actually voted for Trump.  His foreign policy is not about reducing American force posture - he's going to "restore our military" - but about fewer wars.  Nor have tariffs been promised.  Nor has he promised anything about a financial collapse.  The immigration goal is legitimate.

So from an actual Trump voter:

1.  Appoint justices in the mold of Scalia.
2.  Reduce net immigration rate to 0 or below.
3.  Deport at least 4 million illegal aliens by end of 1st term.
4.  Increase manufacturing jobs as a percent of the economy.
5.  Pass a major tax cut.
6.. No new wars.

I'm not sure Trump promised to reduce net immigration. He promises to reduce illegal immigration, and says immigration is ok if it's done legally. I don't think he promised to deport that many illegal aliens either, but I might be wrong on that. Of course, doing this report card scheme for Trump is difficult, because he keeps changing what he promises.

He did promise tarriffs, and especially as punishment for American companies that move factories abroad. He definitely promised to renegotiate or junk NAFTA, the "worst deal" in US or world history according to him. You can't get rid of NAFTA by definition without imposing tarriffs.

My hope is that he either loses re-election, a daunting prospect according to my cosmic crystal ball; or that he loses the congress and is thus forced to reverse course, as he has already done before.