Trump Unhinges the Left?

President Donald Trump conducts a meet and greet with the staff and families of US Embassy Buenos Aires along with Secretary Michael R. Pompeo in Argentina, 30 November 2018. [State Department photo/ Public Domain]
Like it or not, the lines are drawn, writes Victor Davis Hanson in “When Normality Became Abnormal:”

“Trump so unhinged the Left that it finally tore off its occasional veneer of moderation, and showed us what progressives had in store for America.”

2020’s Socialism on One Side

  • Medicare for All
  • Wealth taxes
  • Top income tax rates of 70 or 80 or 90 percent,
  • A desire for a Supreme Court full of “wise Latinas” like Sonia Sotomayor
  • Insidious curtailment of the 1st and 2nd Amendments,
  • Open borders
  • Blanket amnesties
  • Reparations
  • Judges as progressive legislators
  • Permissible infanticide
  • Abolition of student debt
  • Elimination of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement bureau
  • End the Electoral College
  • Voting rights for 16-year-olds and felons
  • Free college tuition

Trump on the Other

  • Fair free market capitalism rather than unfettered international trade
  • A smaller administrative state
  • Less taxation and regulation,
  • Constitutionalist judges
  • More gas and oil
  • Record-low unemployment
  • 3-4 percent economic growth
  • Pressure on colleges to honor the Bill of Rights

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Debbie, our chief political writer of Richardcyoung.com, is also our chief domestic affairs writer, a contributing writer on Eastern Europe and Paris and Burgundy, France. She has been associate editor of Dick Young’s investment strategy reports for over five decades. Debbie lives in Key West, Florida, and Newport, Rhode Island, and travels extensively in Paris and Burgundy, France, cooking on her AGA Cooker, and practicing yoga. Debbie has completed the 200-hour Krama Yoga teacher training program taught by Master Instructor Ruslan Kleytman. Debbie is a strong supporting member of the NRA.