Richardcyoung.com

The Online Home of Author and Investor, Dick Young

  • Home
  • How We Are Different
  • About Us
    • Foundation Principles
    • Contributors
  • Investing
    • You’ve Read The Last Issue of Intelligence Report, Now What?
  • Your Survival Guy
  • The Great Reset
  • COVID-19
  • My Rifles
  • Dividends and Compounding
  • Your Security
  • The Swiss Way
  • Dick Young
  • Debbie Young
  • Key West
  • Paris
  • Dick’s R&B Top 100
  • Liberty & Freedom Map
  • Bank Credit & Money
  • Your Survival Guy’s Super States
  • NNT & Cholesterol
  • Work to Make Money/Invest to Save Money
  • Your Health
  • Ron Paul
  • US Treasury Yield Curve: My Favorite Investor Tool

Ironies Great and Small: Part IV—Better than the Alternative Trump

June 20, 2017 By Debbie Young

Or why Donald Trump was long overdue.

Well over 90% of conservatives and Republicans voted for Donald Trump. Many of them would have much preferred one of the other candidates in the primaries, but Mr. Trump was certainly their candidate in the general election. “For these pragmatists, there are both pleasant and occasionally worrisome ironies,” continues Victor Davis Hanson in NRO.

In Donald Trump’s first 100 days, he has been conservative in terms of policy “to a degree unlike any other Republican president or presidential nominee since Ronald Reagan,” Mr. Hanson reminds readers.

  • Mitt Romney would not have yanked the U.S. out of the jerry-rigged Paris climate accord.
  • John McCain would not have appointed a Neal Gorsuch or proposed to radically recalibrate the tax code.
  • The two Bushes would not have felt politically secure enough to shut down the border to illegal immigration or have pressed to finished the border wall.

Trump often offends through his reckless tweets or by saying out loud what prior presidents would never have voiced.

For the realist Trump supporters, Trump’s tweets or outbursts are often regrettable and occasionally bothersome, but not so much because they demonstrate an unprecedented level of presidential indecency. (Cynical realists with knowledge of history accept what FDR or JFK was capable of, and thus what they said in private conversations, and occasionally out loud.) Trump’s sin, then, is that he more often says out loud what prior presidents kept to their inner circle.

Pragmatists worry about Trump’s bull-in-the-china-shop approach. On one hand, they cringe at his excesses. On the other, it’s hard for them not to enjoy the sanctimonious meltdown of progressives over Mr. Trump.

… but their worry over Trump’s overkill is mostly from the fear that no mortal 70-year-old male, without a traditionally loyal support staff, but with unhealthy sleep and diet habits, and under the stress of historic vituperation, could see through such an ambitious conservative agenda.

It may not be that Trump earns hatred for unnecessary provocation and vitriol, but instead that he or any other Republican would have earned such venom anyway; thus his own searing tactics and narcissistic belief in his own destiny are predicated on the assumption that his unhinged enemies will vaporize first. And he may be right. James Comey has underestimated Donald Trump every bit as much as Marco Rubio or Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama did. In the end, the pragmatists apparently believe conservatives will hang together or hang separately.

Yes, we are in chaos, Mr. Hanson writes.

Never have so many bright people proved so dense. Never have polls and politics proved so unreliable or partisan. Never have unintended consequences so replaced predictable results.”

But is this chaos worse than what prompted Donald Trump’s political ascendancy?

(T)he pandemonium is purgative of the worse that prompted it — and it is unpleasant mostly because it has so long been overdue.

Read more here.

Read Parts I through III:

  1. Ironies Great and Small—Trump vs. Progressives
  2. Ironies Great and Small—Trump vs. Never Trump
  3. Ironies Great and Small—Trump vs. Always Trump

If you’re willing to fight for Main Street America, click here to sign up for the Richardcyoung.com free weekly email.

Related Posts

  • Ironies Great and Small: Part III—Trump vs. Always Trump
  • Ironies Great and Small: Part II—Trump vs. Never Trump
  • Ironies Great and Small: Part I—Trump vs. Progressives
  • Author
  • Recent Posts
Debbie Young
Debbie, editor-in-chief of Richardcyoung.com, has been associate editor of Dick Young’s investment strategy reports for over three decades. When not in Key West, Debbie spends her free time researching and writing in and about Paris and Burgundy, France, cooking on her AGA Cooker, driving her Porsche Boxter S through Vermont and Maine, and practicing yoga.
Latest posts by Debbie Young (see all)
  • Who’d be Nuts Enough to Have Put Money into SVB? - March 21, 2023
  • Victor Davis Hanson: How to Bust DC’s Stronghold - March 21, 2023
  • Pushing Back at ESG - March 20, 2023

Dick Young’s Must Reads

  • America’s Silent Army with 423M Guns
  • Being Fully American Means Americans First
  • Democracy: The Most Dangerous and Insidious Effect of Majority Rule.
  • Progressive Liberalism Has Dragged America near Ruination
  • The Problem in America
  • America’s States Rights Revolution
  • You Want the Limo, Not the Public Bus
  • The Claremont Institute: Protecting the American Way of Life
  • Tucker Carlson Interviews My Favorite Florida Farmer
  • Your Survival Guy’s 2022 Super States: #1 New Hampshire

Our Most Popular Posts

  • Pushing Back at ESG
  • Washington Is the Systemic Risk
  • Your Survival Guy’s BEST Insider’s Guide to Key West
  • Cheap Reliable Heating – a Life Saver
  • Are You Fairly Wealthy? I’m Listening
  • Biden Has Lost Control of the Northern Border Too
  • Who'd be Nuts Enough to Have Put Money into SVB?
  • Matt Taibbi Exposes the "Censorship-Industrial Complex"
  • Get Well Soon Taki
  • “Will We Have Enough to Live On Forever?”

Disclosure

RSS Youngresearch.com

  • Are You Fairly Wealthy? I’m Listening
  • Treasury Studying How to Increase Deposit Insurance
  • Your Survival Guy’s BEST Insider’s Guide to Key West
  • For Whom Is Your Portfolio Serving?
  • Who’s to Blame for Banking Vulnerability?
  • Mortgage Market Not Expected to Settle Down Soon
  • Are You Living Your Best Life?
  • Were Silicon Valley Bank’s Motivations for Taking Losses Pure?
  • Will the Black Swan Usher in Digital Dollars?
  • Major Rail Merger Gets Approval

RSS Yoursurvivalguy.com

  • Are You Fairly Wealthy? I’m Listening
  • How Long Is Your Water Supply Chain?
  • Your Survival Guy’s BEST Insider’s Guide to Key West
  • Be Wary of Those Who Wrap Themselves in Capes
  • For Whom Is Your Portfolio Serving?
  • ESG: Are Markets Ready for “A Needed Dose of Reality?”
  • Was Silicon Valley Bank a Victim of ESG?
  • Are You Living Your Best Life?
  • March RAGE Gauge: Will the Black Swan Usher in Digital Dollars?
  • Gretchen Whitmer Reviving Forced Unionization in Michigan

Who’d be Nuts Enough to Have Put Money into SVB?

Are You Fairly Wealthy? I’m Listening

Get Well Soon Taki

A Cashless Society Is A Debacle for Americans

How about Hiring Erik Prince to Crush the Drug Cartels?

Key West’s Best Burger

Copyright © 2023 | Terms & Conditions | About Us | Dick Young | Archives