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Donald Trump has promised sweeping action in a second administration.
The former president and now president-elect often skipped over details but through more than a year of policy pronouncements and written statements outlined a wide-ranging agenda that blends traditional conservative approaches to taxes, regulation and cultural issues with a more populist bent on trade and a shift in America's international role.
Trump's agenda also would scale back federal government efforts on civil rights and expand presidential powers.
A look at what Trump has proposed:
“Build the wall!” from his 2016 campaign has become creating “the largest mass deportation program in history.” Trump has called for using the National Guard and empowering domestic police forces in the effort. Still, Trump has been scant on details of what the program would look like and how he would ensure that it targeted only people in the U.S. illegally. He’s pitched “ideological screening” for would-be entrants, ending birth-right citizenship (which almost certainly would require a constitutional change), and said he’d reinstitute first-term policies such as “Remain in Mexico,” limiting migrants on public health grounds and severely limiting or banning entrants from certain majority-Muslim nations. Altogether, the approach would not just crack down on illegal migration, but curtail immigration overall.
Trump played down abortion as a second-term priority, even as he took credit for the Supreme Court ending a woman’s federal right to terminate a pregnancy and returning abortion regulation to state governments. At Trump’s insistence, the GOP platform, for the first time in decades, did not call for a national ban on abortion. Trump maintains that overturning Roe v. Wade is enough on the federal level. Trump said last month on his social media platform Truth Social that he would veto a federal abortion ban if legislation reached his desk — a statement he made only after avoiding a firm position in his September debate against Democratic nominee Kamala Harris.
But it’s unclear if his administration would aggressively defend against legal challenges seeking to restrict access to abortion pills, including mifepristone, as the Biden administration has. Anti-abortion advocates continue to wage legal battles over the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the drug as well as the agency's relaxed prescribing restrictions. Trump is also unlikely to enforce Biden’s guidance that hospitals must provide abortions for women who are in medical emergencies, even in states with bans.
Trump’s tax policies broadly tilt toward corporations and wealthier Americans. That’s mostly due to his promise to extend his 2017 tax overhaul, with a few notable changes that include lowering the corporate income tax rate to 15% from the current 21%. That also involves rolling back Democratic President Joe Biden’s income tax hikes on the wealthiest Americans and scrapping Inflation Reduction Act levies that finance energy measures intended to combat climate change.
Those policies notwithstanding, Trump has put more emphasis on new proposals aimed at working- and middle class Americans: exempting earned tips, Social Security wages and overtime wages from income taxes. It’s noteworthy, however, that his proposal on tips, depending on how Congress might write it, could give a back-door tax break to top wage earners by allowing them to reclassify some of their pay as tip income — a prospect that at its most extreme could see hedge-fund managers or top-flight attorneys taking advantage of a policy that Trump frames as being designed for restaurant servers, bartenders and other service workers.
Trump’s posture on international trade is to distrust world markets as harmful to American interests. He proposes tariffs of 10% to 20% on foreign goods — and in some speeches has mentioned even higher percentages. He promises to reinstitute an August 2020 executive order requiring that the federal government buy “essential” medications only from U.S. companies. He pledges to block purchases of “any vital infrastructure” in the U.S. by Chinese buyers.
Trump has called for rolling back societal emphasis on diversity and for legal protections for LGBTQ citizens. Trump has called for ending diversity, equity and inclusion programs in government institutions, using federal funding as leverage.
On transgender rights, Trump promises generally to end “boys in girls’ sports,” a practice he insists, without evidence, is widespread. But his policies go well beyond standard applause lines from his rally speeches. Among other ideas, Trump would roll back the Biden administration’s policy of extending Title IX civil rights protections to transgender students, and he would ask Congress to require that only two genders can be recognized at birth.
The president-elect seeks to reduce the role of federal bureaucrats and regulations across economic sectors. Trump frames all regulatory cuts as an economic magic wand. He pledges precipitous drops in U.S. households’ utility bills by removing obstacles to fossil fuel production, including opening all federal lands for exploration — even though U.S. energy production is already at record highs. Trump promises to unleash housing construction by cutting regulations — though most construction rules come from state and local government. He also says he would end “frivolous litigation from the environmental extremists.”
The approach would in many ways strengthen executive branch influence. That power would come more directly from the White House.
He would make it easier to fire federal workers by classifying thousands of them as being outside civil service protections. That could weaken the government’s power to enforce statutes and rules by reducing the number of employees engaging in the work and, potentially, impose a chilling effect on those who remain.
Trump also claims that presidents have exclusive power to control federal spending even after Congress has appropriated money. Trump argues that lawmakers’ budget actions “set a ceiling” on spending but not a floor — meaning the president’s constitutional duty to “faithfully execute the laws” includes discretion on whether to spend the money. This interpretation could set up a court battle with Congress.
As a candidate, he also suggested that the Federal Reserve, an independent entity that sets interest rates, should be subject to more presidential power. Though he has not offered details, any such move would represent a momentous change to how the U.S. economic and monetary systems work.
The federal Department of Education would be targeted for elimination in a second Trump administration. That does not mean that Trump wants Washington out of classrooms. He still proposes, among other maneuvers, using federal funding as leverage to pressure K-12 school systems to abolish tenure and adopt merit pay for teachers and to scrap diversity programs at all levels of education. He calls for pulling federal funding “for any school or program pushing Critical Race Theory, gender ideology, or other inappropriate racial, sexual, or political content on our children.”
In higher education, Trump proposes taking over accreditation processes for colleges, a move he describes as his “secret weapon” against the “Marxist Maniacs and lunatics” he says control higher education. Trump takes aim at higher education endowments, saying he will collect “billions and billions of dollars” from schools via “taxing, fining and suing excessively large private university endowments” at schools that do not comply with his edicts. That almost certainly would end up in protracted legal fights.
As in other policy areas, Trump isn’t actually proposing limiting federal power in higher education but strengthening it. He calls for redirecting the confiscated endowment money into an online “American Academy” offering college credentials to all Americans without a tuition charges. “It will be strictly non-political, and there will be no wokeness or jihadism allowed—none of that’s going to be allowed,” Trump said on Nov. 1, 2023.
Trump insists he would protect Social Security and Medicare, popular programs geared toward older Americans and among the biggest pieces of the federal spending pie each year. There are questions about how his proposal not to tax tip and overtime wages might affect Social Security and Medicare. If such plans eventually involved only income taxes, the entitlement programs would not be affected. But exempting those wages from payroll taxes would reduce the funding stream for Social Security and Medicare outlays. Trump has talked little about Medicaid during this campaign, but his first administration reshaped the program by allowing states to introduce work requirements for recipients.
As he has since 2015, Trump calls for repealing the Affordable Care Act and its subsidized health insurance marketplaces. But he still has not proposed a replacement: In a September debate, he insisted he had the “concepts of a plan.” In the latter stages of the campaign, Trump played up his alliance with former presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime critic of vaccines and of pesticides used in U.S. agriculture. Trump repeatedly told rally crowds that he would put Kennedy in charge of “making America healthy again."
Trump, who claims that climate change is a “hoax,” blasts Biden-era spending on cleaner energy designed to reduce U.S. reliance on fossil fuels. He proposes an energy policy – and transportation infrastructure spending – anchored to fossil fuels: roads, bridges and combustion-engine vehicles. “Drill, baby, drill!” was a regular chant at Trump rallies. Trump says he does not oppose electric vehicles but promises to end all Biden incentives to encourage EV market development. Trump also pledges to roll back Biden-era fuel efficiency standards.
Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance framed their ticket as favoring America’s workers. But Trump could make it harder for workers to unionize. In discussing auto workers, Trump focused almost exclusively on Biden’s push toward electric vehicles. When he mentioned unions, it was often to lump “the union bosses and CEOs” together as complicit in “this disastrous electric car scheme.” In an Oct. 23, 2023, statement, Trump said of United Auto Workers, “I’m telling you, you shouldn’t pay those dues.”
Trump’s rhetoric and policy approach in world affairs is more isolationist diplomatically, non-interventionist militarily and protectionist economically than the U.S. has been since World War II. But the details are more complicated. He pledges expansion of the military, promises to protect Pentagon spending from austerity efforts and proposes a new missile defense shield — an old idea from the Reagan era during the Cold War. Trump insists he can end Russia’s war in Ukraine and the Israel-Hamas war, without explaining how. Trump summarizes his approach through another Reagan phrase: “peace through strength.” But he remains critical of NATO and top U.S. military brass. “I don’t consider them leaders,” Trump said of Pentagon officials that Americans “see on television.” He repeatedly praised authoritarians like Hungary’s Viktor Orban and Russia’s Vladimir Putin.
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Asiaman7
2024 Harris 67.3 million
2024 Trump 72.1 million
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2020 Biden 81.3 million
2020 Trump 74.2 million
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A cursory review of the popular vote indicates that many millions of voters from 2020 simply did not show up in 2024. Votes remain outstanding in a few states, but most are showing nearly 99% of votes counted.
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https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/11/05/us/elections/results-president.html
dagon
Some hilarity in this morning after the election was seeing many MAGA shills after spending months denying Project 2025 today coming out and say "Yeah, that's the plan".
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/republicans-celebrate-project-2025-trump-win-1235155322/
If they didn't realize it by now, I wonder how long it will take the MAGA base to realize they are not 'winning' under Trump.
https://newrepublic.com/post/186505/trump-brags-got-paying-workers-overtime-scab
plasticmonkey
"his edicts"
Fascism.
Brian Trout
The 2020 Biden supporters just didn’t show up for Kamala.
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/holy-smokes-literally-nothing-jake-tapper-in-awe-after-harris-fails-to-outperform-biden-in-a-single-state/
wallace
The country will be run by Trump, Musk, and their fellow billionaires. The gates of hell have opened.
JohnSmith
It's all going to be ok...
bass4funk
I’m not even surprised by the win, there was no way the country was THAT crazy to elect someone as unqualified as she was, I think a lot of people took a second look, thought real hard and decided, I may like like this guy, but he’s not going to drive the country over a cliff.
Underworld
dagon
Trump has sweeping plans for a second administration. Here's what he's proposed
Anyone that didn't believe that project 2025 was the plan only have themselves to blame.
Underworld
bass4funk
The country will be run by Trump, Musk, and their fellow billionaires. The gates of hell have opened.
And yet she is more qualified than Trump.
As he proceeds to drive the country off a cliff...
Like last time, I expect a lot of buyers remorse.
bass4funk
Relax, that’s not going to come to fruition.
Brian Trout
No, they decided not to vote.
Trump’s 2020 supporters mostly showed up — no more, perhaps slightly less.
Over 10 million of Biden’s 2020 supporters stayed home.
Underworld
bass4funk
Anyone that didn't believe that project 2025 was the plan only have themselves to blame.
We shall see...
wallace
About one-third less voter turnout than the 2020 election.
stormcrow
Unbelievable! The lies, rapes, treason, critical remarks about fallen veterans of foreign wars, racism, previous mishandling of the government during his last term, his love of dictators, etc. It all must mean nothing to the majority of people.
He should've been disqualified anyway for his treason and attempted coup on Jan. 6th. And now he's back again for another 4 years. Let's hope that the whole thing doesn't go up in flames on his watch. Trump is the wrong person you want in charge if there's a crisis, as he proved during his mishandling of the Covid pandemic.
Yrral
Trump probably will not serve out his term, because of dementia
bass4funk
Voters didn’t think so
He didn’t last time. We already have something to compare, people could have rejected him, they didn’t, so relax we will be ok
Uh-huh, ROFL
Don’t worry, Trump doesn’t want to lose the House or Senate in any upcoming midterms, so it’s just not going to happen.
Jay
It’s time for real Americans to celebrate. This is a victory for every hardworking American out there - of all backgrounds. It’s about restoring common sense and fighting for the blue-collar men and women who make their country great, while the Far Left and their woke expat buddies here were busy talking about more illegal immigrants, wasting resources, meddling in other countries’ affairs, and getting vaxxed to the gills.
For years, these Far Left Democrats have mocked traditional values and ignored the struggles of everyday Americans, choosing instead to cater to their elitist agendas.
In short, this win is for the factory workers, the farmers, and the small business owners - not the elitist expats and woke keyboard warriors who forgot what it means to stand up for America.
Jay
You have literally just described your own party.
It's just amazing the way you (collective) cannot tolerate anything outside your own echo chamber and abuse those who don't hold the same views as them... whilst proclaiming tolerance.
BB
The US economy has grown 2.5% or more for six straight quarters (longest stretch since 2006), inflation has come down steadily and the jobless rate is 4.1%, maybe a tad high, but well below the 14.8% peak in April 2020. So what happened? Were people really freaked out about gender issues? Wokeness? Like Dagon, I wonder when MAGAts will realize they're not getting anything under Trump (besides emotional gratification - rage! - courtesy of Fox).
Ken
Don't forget incompetent judge Cannon
Ken
Pray for America, and the whole world
bass4funk
No, it was a complete blowout. He gained voters in every demographic. Women came out for Trump +2
Men +3
Non-College educated +6
Hispanic +6
Blacks +7
Young voters +10
These are the groups that gave him a sounding win.
bass4funk
That crazy incompetent District Attorney from California Gascon is out, another massive win for Democracy.
u_s__reamer
Judge Merchan, save us from this deranged felon! 0h, and thanks to Biden & Garland for allowing him to run amok for 4 years and give the lie to "equal justice under law" and show the American people how some are positively more equal than others!
Underworld
bass4funk
As he proceeds to drive the country off a cliff...
Voters didn't think so. He lost in a landslide because of his mishandling of Covid.
People have short memories.
bass4funk
I did real hard yesterday and my prayers were answered.
Underworld
Ken
Potential SCOTUS candidate?
Yrral
American that voted for Trump, deserve the government they will and the MAGA hell they will be living in
bass4funk
They did that’s why they voted for him.
Huh, I’m talking about yesterday not 2020, please keep up.
Relax. Lol
Brian Trout
Oh, please! Three weeks ago, the Economist reported that “wages in America’s poorest state, Mississippi, are higher than the averages in Britain, Canada, and Germany.”
dagon
Exactly; the beauty of it (for Trump) is that during his first term his authoritarianism was hampered by his natural incompetence.
But this time. there is a corporatist planner and and Xtian nationalist organizer planning team in place to carry it all out.
.
He just has to sit back and hand out some sound bites and it will all play out.
NOMINATION
You said yesterday Kamala would win the popular vote. What happened?
fallaffel
Elect a conman (again); don't be surprised that he doesn't do what he promised.
Brian Trout
Trump didn’t gain voters. His supporters showed up — around 72 million, slightly less than the 74 million from 2020.
wallace
NOMINATION
The country will be run by Trump, Musk, and their fellow billionaires. The gates of hell have opened.
I didn't say anything yesterday.
NOMINATION
People of all races, genders and religions contributed to Trump winning. You have said otherwise for months and only white people supported Trump. Why Yrral?
Bad Haircut
This article belongs in the opinion section - a Democrat-stained look at what a Trump presidency might look like through the eyes of a journalist clearly upset at the election's outcome.
I guess this is the tone of articles here on JT for at least the next 4 years.
Is it too much to ask for objective facts untainted by partisan views?
NOMINATION
"Trump will once again lose the popular vote"
JJE
Amazing all the Harris boyz opposed Trump and his policies.
He said them, he asserted the decency and now he has a mandate.
wallace
The dollar-yen hits ¥153.38.
Bad Haircut
Ummmm, yes you did Wallace. Here's the post above.
Ken
Nah you prayed for the world to burn. Things are only going to get worse as Trump switches up on American allies to befriend Russia, China and NK. Democracy is dead
bass4funk
So you’re saying if Harris would have won, with her billionaire fellow donors would have been better?
Ken
Racism is embedded in American culture more so than how many men are okay with having a female president it seems
Chabbawanga
Trump will now be the president when the US enters the greatest recession since 1929. The damage has already been done, there is nothing he can do to stop it. Never fear, the rest of the world will be caught up too.
bass4funk
He often forgets his previous posts, forgets they are retrievable
Wick's pencil
Or rather about one-third less ballots than the 2020 election.
utorsa
Donald Trump will be the 1st convicted felon president.
Mr Kipling
The Democrats shot themselves in the foot with Harris. Should have gone with Biden after Obama but they just had to have a woman and run Hilary. Then went with Biden but HAD to have a woman of color who just couldn't gain any popularity. So they tried to keep Biden in obvious failing cognitive health for another 4 years. That blew up in their faces so they were now stuck with Harris. And we are stuck with Trump. They now have 4 years to find some one who can win.
bass4funk
No, I prayed for my country. Sorry, you don’t get to dictate what I think or say
We heard that in 2016 and nothing happened. Take a deep breath
bass4funk
ROFL!! Too, too funny!
owzer
Will be nice to see the end to the Didn’t Earn It programs!
Antiquesaving
So the fear mongering by MSM and the left didn't take long.
Instead of asking why people rejected Harris and the Dems, the MSM and Dems are just going to double down on fear and blaming everyone they don't like or don't accept the far left agenda section of the party.
Here we have the fear mongering, and the Dem representatives are going around blaming white men, black men, white women even Hispanic men.
Calling everyone sexist, racist etc....they have even started blaming Tim Walz for being the wrong choice and being a straight white male picked just to cater to the racist voter. (This was said by Kamala's reps last night at her own headquarters in and interview).
They are not going to change or ask why.
Chabbawanga
It is called the business cycle. Watch and learn.
All indicators are warning "recession", and with the whole world currently in the biggest asset bubble of all time it will be a nasty one.
Ken
Nah America is doomed, as well as a few other countries are doomed as collateral
bass4funk
No, we just want a competent female president. Also, if America is so racist, how could Obama win, twice? How could Trump win without the Black and Latino vote.
bass4funk
Uh-huh..ROFL!
Well, and this is why Trump will get rid of these stagnant regulations, tap into our endless energy resources and stop the government juggernaut that has been plundering our working class, particularly stop punishing small businesses, that’s a start
dagon
Worst take and you should probably go back to talking about the white man's burden.
The problem with Dems is that they go with neolibs that have caused the economic misery many suffer under in the States.
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2016/5/15/polls-sanders-has-more-potential-to-beat-trump
Ken
America is slightly more sexist than it is racist. Yeah the small percentage of those racist against their own kind. It's all fun and games until ICE puts kids back in cages again right? Or life going back in time to the 1950s
bass4funk
Yes, and yesterday people voted for Change in a massive way!
I personally worry more about my country first and foremost
Chabbawanga
I wouldnt expect you to understand
Best of luck to him. My personal favourite will be seeing how his tariffs on imported good will make everyones life much cheaper. kek
Blacklabel
I hope he does every single thing the Democrats falsely said he would do.
all of it.
you can’t just falsely accuse a guy like that and then the next day be like “oh let’s come together snd heal”
that can and will happen. On our timeline when we bore of celebrating our victory and enjoy ramming some things down your throat like you gleefully did to us the last 4 years.
so who is going to prison first on liberal side?
Ken
By change you mean violence and hatred
dagon
This is all things I have posted before but I am an independent leftist American, not a 'lib', and I knew Harris' weaknesses.
They went with Trump the anti-democrat but people cared about the economy.
Exit polls asked Trump voters why was it better 4 years ago and most said : THE COVID CHECKS!.
I got one with Trump's signature too.
His most socialist policy , a UBI, is what most people remember.
And then Biden had to go back to the neo-liberal, late stage capitalist mean and austerity for workers.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/15/critics-say-bidens-covid-relief-plan-breaks-promise-of-2000-dollar-checks.html
This is why people look back on the Trump admin as a better economy and explains the Trump victory.
He will give the MAGA faithful a late stage capitalist dystopia though.
JJE
'Liberal' Joe supporters suddenly don't like the concept of being thrown in the clink.
Despite the fact they have been demanding it of others.
Blacklabel
whine moar, isn’t it?
you must feel so disappointed and powerless.
Chabbawanga
Make sure it is enough to work the gulags and build the wall.
JJE
Joe supporters didn't think twice (or once) before calling for jail sentences.
Now they pretend it didn't happen. Amazing.
Kumagaijin
Which is actually better than what Harris proposed which was absolutely nothing. Harris said she wouldn't be any different from Biden and that is ultimately why she lost the election.
bass4funk
I think it's the other way around.
Well, China wants to do one thing sell their cheap crap products and America is their biggest market, with tariffs they would have to rethink how they do business, they have to, they won't like it and that is ok, but Biden wouldn't push them, Trump would and will.
Blacklabel
Only 3 people have more of a right than me to say “I told you so”.
I literally told you every single thing that would happen. Down to the Kamala wouldn’t even get 70 million votes from actual people.
the 3 people with a “I told you so” right more than me?
Joe Biden.
Steve Bannon.
President Donald J. Trump.
Especially Joe, he has to be so full of joy and vibes right now, he told them, they couped him anyway.
Simon Foston
BlacklabelToday 09:02 am JST
I must re-read the article. I didn't realise it was all about you.
Chabbawanga
Your fixation on punishment overlooks the harm tariffs will inflict on U.S. citizens and businesses. China meets demand, and tariffs will drive up inflation, hitting consumers already in tough circumstances. Small businesses relying on low-cost Chinese supply chains will suffer, and many could fail.
Yes, tariffs will impact other countries, but they’ll also likely trigger a U.S. recession, which could ripple into a global downturn. This is a natural phase of the boom-bust cycle in an inflated global economy.
Reshaping the U.S. economy for self-sufficiency would take decades, not just four years.
mrtinjp
As a candidate, he also suggested that the Federal Reserve, an independent entity that sets interest rates, should be subject to more presidential power
This definitely needs to happen, the elected should be the decision maker on any fiscal policy and especially interest rates.
dutch
Can't. Take. Much. More....
I'm OD'ing...
I knew this morning would be beautiful, but I can't feel my feet anymore......
JJE
As Ramaswamy was quick to punch to say, first order of business is to release the Jan 6th victims.
That will be the first step in restoring public decency.
Blacklabel
Leftists here made it all about me the last 4 years here.
So why wouldn’t it be about me and how right I was about everything, now?
you haven’t congratulated me yet, that’s step one for you.
Welcome to MAGA-world, wasn’t it? You better hope Trump isn’t as evil as you falsely claimed he was.
bass4funk
And for them as well
They know that and still voted for Trump
And you have other countries such as Brazil, Mexico, India and Taiwan to fill these voids
Short-term, not long-term, won't be worse than what we are facing now.
And the best time to start is now, excellent point.
dagon
As usual, the best take is from Bernie Sanders whose hugely popular economic populism was blocked twice by the DNC establishment :
Sen. Bernie Sanders, the Vermont independent and former Democratic primary candidate, had warned Harris before Election Day that she was focusing too much on flipping Republican votes and not enough on pocketbook issues. He issued a statement excoriating party leadership.
“It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them,” he said. “First, it was the white working class, and now it is Latino and Black workers as well. While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change. And they’re right.”
https://apnews.com/article/democrats-trump-harris-election-future-5bf8bd0ca6683119a846abd446544407
But the financier backers of both parties know whatever way it plays out they gain in the duopoly.
Antiquesaving
Morning Joe:
And then the Dems ask Why they lost.
Basically they called half more than half the population racist and sexist blaming Men in general and White women, then piled on that Hispanics are racist and black men are sexist.
What a great winning strategy!
Fear like in the above article and trying to shame people into voting your way due to their skin colour and gender.
And the far left don't de how that could be a problem.
dutch
dagon, how many houses does the self-described socialist Sanders own?
JJE
Retribution for the political prosecutions has to occur. Up and down the line.
Without that, natural justice cannot be achieved. The jury has delivered the verdict.
burgers and beers
"his edicts"....Fascism."
Woke left hysteria is hard to cure apparently.
bass4funk
Popular with the Socialist, hand out crowds....
Sen. Bernie Sanders, the Vermont independent and former Democratic primary candidate, had warned Harris before Election Day that she was focusing too much on flipping Republican votes and not enough on pocketbook issues. He issued a statement excoriating party leadership.
“It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them,” he said. “First, it was the white working class, and now it is Latino and Black workers as well. While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change. And they’re right.”
He is right for once, attacking Trump, demonizing him, calling him Hitler and his supporters dumb or garbage boomeranged back at the Democrats, if anyone is to blame for a Democrat defeat its the Democrat's own self-boasting and thinking that nothing can touch them, not even Kryptonite, their self-absorbed hubris is what got them defeated.
We are a Capitalist society after all
asdfgtr
@JJE,
Hell yeah!
Why stop at jail....how about some Putin-style "falling from a window" public executions of political opponents?
https://www.newsweek.com/full-list-russians-fall-windows-putin-ukraine-war-1781790
Norm
What’s a “sounding win”? Perhaps “resounding win”?
Or just a “euphemism”?
NOMINATION
So I MUST vote for Kamala only because of her skin color and gender. If not, I am a racist? Interesting....
Blacklabel
Oh “Norm”, never change.
all this calamity just befell you.
Everything you ever thought or said here was just proven completely false and inaccurate. you basically hid and cried all day yesterday.
and you go with…grammar errors? lol
Jimizo
This is the key point. Trump lost a bit of steam but the the Democrat vote cratered from 2020.
Dreadful performance. Must do better.
Attilathehungry
Not sure about the rest of you fascists, but I for one am busy dusting off my hidden copy of Project 2025. My highlighter is ready to mark the best bits, then send them off to my masters in Sodom by the Potomac for quick action. Be afraid. Be very afraid!
But seriously, a Trump presidency will let America recover some ground and become a decent, patriotic country again. The people who work and do will be in charge, not the people who talk and whine.
Gareth Myles
Is Bill Barrow the pen-name of Kamala Harris? This paper does itself no credit by publishing such a blatantly-opinionated article. I want to read honest, sensible, critical analysis, not this kind of mindless whining.
Underworld
burgers and beers
"his edicts"....Fascism."
I think it was John Kelly, a Republican and Trump's own former Chief of Staff, that called him a fascist.
And he would know...
finally rich
A man who've seen how the World works for almost a 100 years... you should have know better than all of us combined. Meanwhile, this.
Age ≠ Wisdom
Chabbawanga
Yes, I already said that. Unfortunately, China heading into a recession doesnt some how fix the US.
They did, why would anyone vote for the incumbent government when they are struggling to make rent and afford groceries.
So, how exactly does this reshape the US economy? Still buying everything from overseas. Or is the plan to punish China, and just hope that MAGA?
BB
mrtinjpToday 09:08 am JST
As a candidate, he also suggested that the Federal Reserve, an independent entity that sets interest rates, should be subject to more presidential power
Interest rates come under monetary policy, not fiscal. He'd drive rates lower -- which will cause inflation. So no, he shouldn't have anything to do with monetary policy.
Jimizo
The old idea that conservatives aren’t funny gaining steam.
That is a worry. I’ve always seen Trump as a decent level grifter and a conman but let’s see what he does while in office.
He didn’t deliver on what he promised last trine - building a wall, getting rid of the debt, better healthcare at a fraction of the cost etc.
Let’s wait and see this time.
bass4funk
No, but it will bring them to the table, because the one thing that the Chinese worry about is their own slagging economy
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crr54x00857o
Exactly
Double-loaded question, Trump will lower the corporate tax rate that will be the first step and of course, people will still buy products overseas that can't be helped, but you can make a difference for entrepreneurs and small business owners.
No, you want fair trade, not one-sided trade, bullying is what the Chinese do best, and submitting to the Chinese is another huge problem, but not anymore, remember, the Chinese wanted a Kamala Presidency, very telling who they think is the real idiot.
asdfgtr
Trump on Elon (from Trump's victory speech):
"We have a new star....a star is born: ELON!"
Toblerone
The Dems got it all wrong. Harris was the wrong pick from the start. I mean, seriously!
Their calculation that the public had been successfully dumbed down by years of MSM propaganda and institutional wokeism/neo Marxism was dead wrong.
then there was Obama castigating black men who dared to think for themselves, Sleepy Joe waking up just long enough to call half the country garbage, etc etc.
And Kamala herself simply incapable of answering questions.
Norm
No calamity at all here. Just about to start my usual day.
After I posted a couple of times in the morning, I had appointments until night. You might have heard of people who actually have a real life.
As for everything I ever said or thought, being proven false, please feel to go back through my posts and find an example. I didn’t make any predictions about the election.
Just like to call out illiteracy when it shows up, which is quite often in some people’s posts.
And it’s not a “grammar error” (lol), it’s a lexical problem. :-)
JJE
Many are anticipating and looking forward to that program which will secure the border and reverse the 10 million the current lame ducks welcomed into and flew all over the country at night.
This is a core promise. Expect action on day 1 in January.
BillieJ
The US chose the right person.
The majority of voters rejected a non-democratically appointed nominee.
Trump goes down in history as having defeated 2 Democrat candidates in the same election.
And the beating inflicted on Harris was plainly brutal. Pure domination.
A red wave in November.
The election that woke up the world.
Finally, peace and prosperity are on the horizon.
Toblerone
The Dems got it all wrong. Harris was the wrong pick from the start. I mean, seriously!
Their calculation that the public had been successfully dumbed down by years of MSM propaganda and institutional wokeism/neo Marxism was dead wrong.
then there was Obama castigating black men who dared to think for themselves, Sleepy Joe waking up just long enough to call half the country garbage, etc etc.
And Kamala herself simply incapable of answering questions.
The world under Sleepy Joe and Kamala became a chaotic mess. Incompetents!
Jimizo
Some claiming she was put in a very difficult position - just a few months to put a campaign together ( surely Biden has to shoulder a lot of blame for this ).
That aside, she was never a great candidate. Trump actually lost support from 2020.
If you can’t beat a men declining physically and mentally and losing support, that’s a damning indictment.
Antiquesaving
This one I find to be the most hilarious thing.
Musk backed Trump, yep correct, as well as 35 other billionaires ( well depends on who is writing Bloomberg articles because in another they claim 52 seems they can't get it straight)
Harris had over 100 billionaires backing her and they donated far far more to her campaign than the ones that donated to Trump.
Harris got around $1 billion from her billionaire backers at least that was what Bloomberg could find as much of it is secret.
While Trump got around $200 million from his group.
Toblerone
The Demokratik ceased to be the party of ordinary working people some time ago. That mantle belongs to the Republican party now. The public knows it.
The Dem party is a grotesquery. JFK would disown it without hesitation.
Chabbawanga
Corporate tax cuts have proven to have negligible impact on growth. Its just another myth like trickle-down economics.
WoodyLee
This man is made of Titanium, he may not be the perfect leader for America BUT he is what America needs these days.
I hope he can deliver.
bass4funk
That is not true, corporate tax hikes have a negative impact on growth.
https://www.cnbc.com/2016/04/21/10-iconic-us-companies-that-have-moved-headquarters-abroad.html
That is just the beginning, you lower the corporate tax rate and give incentives to companies that come back to the US and punish those that leave.
Yeah, more lib tank think and this is why Dems not only got defeated, but got shellacked because of their robbing Paul to give to Peter income redistributionist policies.
Underworld
Chabbawanga
So their answer is to vote for someone who promises to send inflation soaring?
wallace
Antiquesaving
The country will be run by Trump, Musk, and their fellow billionaires. The gates of hell have opened.
Trump's tax cuts in his first term benefited the rich. He went on to increase the national debt by $7 trillion.
Jimizo
Not a great track record on that.
Let’s see this time.
Chabbawanga
I stated that corporate tax cuts have a negligible impact on growth.
You never address anything I say, you go off on a completely unrelated tangent. Trickle down economics is a theory with little evidence to support it.
Chabbawanga
So their answer is to vote for someone who promises to send inflation soaring?
What do you mean? Inflation has soared under the Democrats. The cost of living crisis is real now.
rcch
“ Trump has sweeping plans for a second administration “; “ he has promised sweeping action in a second administration “—And that’s what we want.
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Note: The American people didn’t fall for the Hitler/end of democracy nonsense and celebrity BS (ultimately, Trump’s (overwhelming) victory is not surprising—Kamala was the most incompetent/dangerous presidential candidate in history and obviously she doesn’t deserve to be the first female President of the United States).
burgers and beers
"Voters didn't think so. He lost in a landslide because of his mishandling of Covid."
Yet they re-elected him again, so all is good apparently. ( show me a major western country in which people didn't think their leaders mishandled Covid )
Perhaps but people have spoken so its time to cope and move on. Things will be good. Golden Age for America is on the way.
JJE
PAX TRUMPANA
Peace and prosperity for the world.
Underworld
Chabbawanga
So their answer is to vote for someone who promises to send inflation soaring?
What are you talking about. Inflation is 2.1% The US economy is the strongest in the world.