{"id":75791,"date":"2017-11-06T08:00:17","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T13:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=75791"},"modified":"2017-11-06T07:49:07","modified_gmt":"2017-11-06T12:49:07","slug":"la-times-trump-has-managed-to-push-the-most-conservative-agenda-in-a-generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=75791","title":{"rendered":"LA Times: Trump has managed to push the most conservative agenda in a generation"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been thinking about this subject recently, but the LA Times’ Steven F. Hayward<\/a> has noticed, too. While most of the media is focused on his covfefe tweets, the President has, in fact, been pushing a conservative policy through the legislative process;<\/p>\n

In assessing Trump\u2019s accomplishments, let\u2019s not get too distracted by his unconventional conduct. This hitherto ideologically unmoored man has set in motion an administration arguably more conservative than Ronald Reagan\u2019s. While the Congress controlled by his adopted party remains gridlocked, Trump is rolling back regulations and a number of the Obama administration\u2019s most controversial achievements, including the internal structure of Obamacare and the Clean Power Plan. His foreign policy resets look increasingly sure-footed. His judicial nominees are uniformly conservative. It is inconceivable that any of the other leading Republican candidates from the 2016 cycle would have governed as boldly as Trump has.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s rhetorical and behavioral recklessness \u2014 his government-by-tweet \u2014 still make it hard to discern whether there is a method to his madness, or whether he is just going with the populist flow he helped unleash. He has yet to be tested with a serious crisis, where showmanship and bluster count for nothing. Aristotle wrote that \u201crule shows the man,\u201d but what we\u2019re seeing so far is still confusing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We’re looking at tax reform<\/a> for the first time in almost thirty years. Tax reform that benefits taxpayers, not necessarily the government tax collectors. <\/p>\n

A year ago, ISIS controlled vast swaths of Syria and Iraq. Today they’re hiding in caves in Syria. <\/p>\n

The Environmental Protection Agency has been reined in with their anti-business agenda. Obamacare and it’s anti-growth policies are on the ropes.<\/p>\n

My investment values have improved by 25% in the last year after stagnation during the Obama uncertainty. The GDP has improved by 3% this quarter. <\/p>\n

While I agree with most people that Trump should get off Twitter, maybe that’s part of his plan to distract everyone while he pushes a conservative agenda past us, giving us what we need while we’re not paying attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been thinking about this subject recently, but the LA Times’ Steven F. Hayward has noticed, … LA Times: Trump has managed to push the most conservative agenda in a generation<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}