What's not to like?
For example, the GOP’s
draconian health care scheme is so ugly that only 17 percent of Americans support it —
and even Trump, who originally said he was “100 percent behind this,” now calls
the bill “mean.”
Then there’s his
promise to invest a trillion dollars in hiring people to repair America’s
collapsing infrastructure. That turns out to have been a Trump scam.
His actual plan is to
give $200 billion in tax breaks to high-roller
Wall Street investors, hoping they’ll put some of it into infrastructure
projects. It’s like promising to feed the sparrows by putting oats in the horse
feed, hoping they’ll pass through some seeds for the birds to peck out.
Also, remember his promise to crack down on Wall Street greedheads? No go. Now, he and Congress are pushing a bill to coddle the banksters by removing existing consumer protections that restrict Wall Street greed.
But he is creating new jobs for 4,000 or so lucky Americans. In Afghanistan. The 16-year war there has been an unequivocal disaster for the US and our troops.
But rather than being
a commander-in-chief, Trump has washed his hands of that presidential
responsibility, becoming a wimpy delegator-in-chief by
handing off responsibility to the military brass. They’re now shipping 4,000
more troops into a hellish war the American people do not support.
Trump’s overriding
failure, however, is that he has no vision, no big ideas, no moxie — just a
slogan. Any gasbag can say “Make America Great” over and over again. But doing
it takes real leadership, and he and his White House gang of incompetents
clearly don’t have that in them. Sad.
OtherWords columnist Jim Hightower is a radio commentator, writer,
and public speaker. He’s also the editor of the populist newsletter, The
Hightower Lowdown. Distributed by OtherWords.org.
