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Great article on Trump, his failures and the idiots who still believe in him.
https://www.unz.com/article/trumps-chumps/
Some highlights
Donald Trump has told his base that they are “winning.” They wear Q shirts and “Trust The Plan” at his rallies. They are Making America Great Again simply by having a Republican in the White House. They are content to go on believing that even as illegal immigration DOUBLED in FY 2019 and became a far worse problem than it ever was under the Obama administration
It was Julian Assange and Roger Stone who went to prison under Trump, not Hillary Clinton
As soon as Trump won the 2016 election, conservatives shifted their attention back to policing their right flank
Donald Trump has built all of three new miles of fence, which is actually less than W. and Obama. He didn’t do anything about sanctuary cities or pass E-Verify. He has actually increased guest worker programs. There has been no cuts to legal immigration. Instead, Jared Kushner’s legal immigration plan only proposes to reconfigure the composition of it for big business so that more high skilled workers and fewer peons are imported from the Third World
Those who voted for Donald Trump to “move the Overton Window” succeeded in making homosexuality more acceptable on the Right
Far from being a victory for the Dissident Right, we became identified with Donald Trump and were caught in the backlash while he delivered Jeb Bush’s agenda (the boogeyman wasn’t real).
Trump is a “populist” in the sense that he has DEEPENED neoliberalism. When you look at his policies, he has continued and further extended the status quo of the last forty years which has been tax cuts, deregulation, entitlement cuts, free trade agreements and huge increases in military spending
Donald Trump is pointedly NOT a nationalist, populist or identitarian. He carefully avoids ever mentioning the word “White.” Instead, he talks incessantly about the black, Hispanic, Asian-American, LGBTQ and female unemployment rate
Orthodox Jews hit the jackpot with the King of Israel and Zionists have been on an unprecedented winning streak. In just the last three months, Trump has issued an executive order to ban anti-Semitism on college campuses, assassinated Qasem Soleimani and has given Bibi Netanyahu the green light to annex large swathes of the West Bank. Trump is even considering allowing Jonathan Pollard to return to Israel. Is it any wonder then that a recent Gallup poll found that Israelis support his “America First” foreign policy over Americans by a whopping 18-point margin?
After the 2018 election was over, you might recall how Trump banned bump stocks and passed criminal justice reform for Van Jones and the Koch Brothers during the lame duck session of Congress
Don’t forget how Trump’s Chumps told us how “Chad” it was in 2018 to elect more Republicans to stop Antifa, the caravans and Big Tech censorship and how those same Republicans once elected to office preferred to fight anti-Semitism for AIPAC.
Four years later, Trump’s Chumps are still sitting by the phone waiting for the Donald to call back while he huddles with Steve Schwarzman and Bibi Netanyahu. They can’t see what is front of their own eyes. By going ALL IN for Trump, they wrecked, divided and demoralized their own movement in order to advance the standard conservative policy agenda.