Trump’s first term was a success
To the editor:
President Donald Trump has had the most successful first term in the history except for Lincoln, FDR and Richard Nixon. He effectively ended illegal immigration, slashed oil prices and imports, cutting the taxes of 83% of taxpayers and all corporations, deregulating and eliminating illegal cheap labor competition and renegotiating uneven trade arrangements. Trump created more positions to fill in the economy than there were unemployed.
He delivered the country from the Green Terror without sacrificing the environment, revived the concept of nuclear non-proliferation for irresponsible states (Iran and North Korea), filled the bench with authentic constitutionalist and NOT authoritarian social thinkers, shaped up NATO and the U.S. Armed forces, responsibly alerted the world to the proportions of the Chinese challenge, and had made greater peace progress on the Mideast than anyone since President Carter at Camp David in 1978. President Trump had the right attitude about the virus when he preached resistance rather than fear, and emphasized “avoidance” of economic disaster and of total submission through prolonged shut down.
Unfortunately, and as is also not infrequently the case with Trump, his message was not well transmitted and was easily portrayed by his ubiquitous media enemies as flippancy, callousness and incompetence. History will record the negligence of state governors, New York’s Andrew Cuomo in particular, in failing to protect and isolate the elderly. It will also record that President Trump swiftly remedied the terrible insufficiency of public health emergency responses bequeathed to him by Obama and Biden, he mobilized industry to eliminate those shortages very quickly, had the best economic performance of any advanced country and accelerated vaccines by at least two years.
Trump’s problem was he set out to displace the entire political establishment that he and half of Americans held responsible for at least 20 years of preceding presidential incompetence: endless, fruitless Mideast wars; the greatest economic disaster since the Great Depression; increasing poverty and violent crimes; and steady exploitation by unfair trading, partners and freeloading allies, while the United States was being out distanced by China!
Six months of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will generate vertiginous nostalgia for Donald Trump!
Quotes from Conrad Black.
Walter B. Preble III
Cape Coral