Post by Daniel on Dec 30, 2017 10:40:41 GMT -5
Pundits Begin to Eat Crow About Trump
by Brian McNicoll on December 28, 2017
Nearly a year into his presidency, pundits are admitting that not only has President Trump accomplished more than they expected but has governed more conservatively as well.
Mark Levin devoted a segment recently to explaining why Trump is the most conservative president since at least Ronald Regan.
National Review, which famously put together a special issue last year entitled, “Against Trump,” choked down a plateful of crow last week. “Give Trump Credit Where It’s Due,” read the headline on editor Rich Lowry’s piece. “As the year ends, he is compiling a solid record of accomplishment.”
Aside from Neil Gorsuch joining the Supreme Court, much of the year had been “sound and fury signifying not much,” Lowry wrote.
“Now, it is sound and fury signifying a discernible shift of American government to the right. It is hard to see how a conventional Republican president would have done much better, except if he had managed to get Obamacare repealed, which was always going to be a dicey proposition given the narrow Republican majority in the Senate.”
The tax cut has “changes conservative economists have sought for decades” — lowering the corporate rate from 35 to 21 percent, moving to a territorial tax system and business expensing. These were “arguably as significant on the corporate side as the Regan reforms of 1981 were on the individual side,” Lowry wrote. “They stand a good chance to be enduring, too – it’s unlikely we are ever going back up to a 35 percent corporate rate or returning to a worldwide tax system.”
Other conservative accomplishments impressed as well – deregulation, VA reform, immigration reform, destroying ISIS, expanding energy production, reversing net neutrality, declaring Jerusalem the capital of Israel, withdrawing from the Paris climate accords and the Trans-Pacific Partnership, getting NATO and UN members to pay more of their fair share.
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www.aim.org/aim-column/pundits-begin-to-eat-crow-about-trump/
by Brian McNicoll on December 28, 2017
Nearly a year into his presidency, pundits are admitting that not only has President Trump accomplished more than they expected but has governed more conservatively as well.
Mark Levin devoted a segment recently to explaining why Trump is the most conservative president since at least Ronald Regan.
National Review, which famously put together a special issue last year entitled, “Against Trump,” choked down a plateful of crow last week. “Give Trump Credit Where It’s Due,” read the headline on editor Rich Lowry’s piece. “As the year ends, he is compiling a solid record of accomplishment.”
Aside from Neil Gorsuch joining the Supreme Court, much of the year had been “sound and fury signifying not much,” Lowry wrote.
“Now, it is sound and fury signifying a discernible shift of American government to the right. It is hard to see how a conventional Republican president would have done much better, except if he had managed to get Obamacare repealed, which was always going to be a dicey proposition given the narrow Republican majority in the Senate.”
The tax cut has “changes conservative economists have sought for decades” — lowering the corporate rate from 35 to 21 percent, moving to a territorial tax system and business expensing. These were “arguably as significant on the corporate side as the Regan reforms of 1981 were on the individual side,” Lowry wrote. “They stand a good chance to be enduring, too – it’s unlikely we are ever going back up to a 35 percent corporate rate or returning to a worldwide tax system.”
Other conservative accomplishments impressed as well – deregulation, VA reform, immigration reform, destroying ISIS, expanding energy production, reversing net neutrality, declaring Jerusalem the capital of Israel, withdrawing from the Paris climate accords and the Trans-Pacific Partnership, getting NATO and UN members to pay more of their fair share.
more
www.aim.org/aim-column/pundits-begin-to-eat-crow-about-trump/
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