He, similar to Obama, is the wrong "leader" at the wrong time. We're off course and getting more and more so with each day.
Under Trump they are not taken seriously and they have made significant progress in less than a year, and it's quite probable that military intervention will be necessary before Trump's term is up. It's well-known in the IC and Congress that Trump is a childlike senile fool who has no real grasp of any issue that can't be summarized in 160 characters. Certainly foreign leaders are well aware of it, ask Merkel what she thinks about him, let alone the less scrupulous countries like Saudi Arabia that are openly playing to it.
People don't appreciate how many things were quietly going right under Obama, and now the world's trouble spots are being allowed to fester under Trump. Some career State Department roles are down 60% in less than a year. Putin picked a great leader for his purposes, American leadership in the world has been diminished significantly and the basic machinery of our government is grinding to a halt. A+++ would hack again.
(of course there's no evidence that vote tallies were changed... yet. But the Trump campaign coordinated heavily with Russia and virtually everything short of changing vote tallies has been confirmed, so I just wouldn't be surprised to hear it at this point. There were quite a few "surprise wins" that nobody expected. It's quite likely that it can never be proved either way, thanks to the lack of paper trails and the active purge of some electronic records by state governments.)
Yes, but quietly works both ways.
- Fracking hockey stick'ed on Obama's watch. In the context of climate change that's unimaginable.
- Wall Street consolidated it's power (8 major banks down to 7) and there was no significant response. Not single WS exec was prosecuted after the 2008 crash.
- The usage of drones - built by the MIC led by the CIA - increased as a proxy for foreign policy under Obama. Those civilian deaths, of which there are plenty, will eventually come back to haunt the USA.
- Snowden happened on Obama's watch and the response... (editorial) I don't feel any safer, nor my rights any more protected.
- BLM was on BO's watch and plenty of influential figures have been critical of Obama's response.
- Flint MI happened on Obama's watch. A local issue perhaps but when the greatest country in the history of the world poisons its own with lead and the POTUS just gives another "that's not who we are speech" something isn't right.
Finally, the USA empire has been on the decline for sometime. Neither Trump nor HRC were going to stop that slide.
I'm not picking on Obama. He did a good job all in all. What concerns me is how willing the media has been not to paint the complete picture on some very significant issues / events. Things that will having a long lasting impact on the future of the USA, as well as the world.
As for the election, history says otherwise. DNC incompetence as well as Clinton arrogance all but handed Trump & Co the win. In addition, the fact that a "political unknown" was able to bubble to the top of the GOP ticket is more of an indictment of that party than any significant skill on Trump's part. Who did he beat? Cruz? Rubio? That's a notworthy accomplishment?
Pardon me for saying so (as it's not very HN) but...you're funny.
And you try to beat Cruz or Rubio (let alone “arrogant” Clinton and the entirety of mainstream press), and then come here and tell us if it’s a noteworthy accomplishment.
I'm being snarky. I'm curious as to how anyone can see the rest of the GOP'ers that tried to get the nomination as being worthy or it.
You're failing to recognize that GOP establishment hates Trump just as much as Democratic establishment does. They would rather fail themselves than let him win, because they feel it in their guts that if he wins, he won't keep them around for long. He's an anti-establishment candidate. That's the platform he ran on, and that's the platform he will run on in 2020 (and likely win again, unless Democrats can suppress their utter disdain for rural, working class voters).
So at this point, regardless of what you think about Trump, it's 4 more years of "let them eat cake" for we the people. That's guaranteed at this point.