Originally Posted by
Haghstull
The two biggest and most salient ones, for me, are the wall lie and the economic nationalism lie.
You elected not to publish a pointed question I asked last week about Trump’s priorities with regards to the wall vs foreign aid, so I will assume you don’t want me to reiterate that here. Suffice to say that I think the biggest myth about the wall proposal (which has been inexplicably swallowed by many on the right) is that DJT tried really, really hard to get it through, but the Dems in the house simply would never allow it. He did not try hard. He did nothing to put pressure on them. All he needed was a billion dollars—pocket change in the setting of the federal budget. There was a huge, long list of things he could have withheld from them in an attempt to get the votes; many of these things would have cost him very little politically. He should have been brawling tooth and claw right up until the last appropriations bill of his last term. Instead he shrugged, bombed Syria, and gave up after about 4 months of “effort”. Given the repeated (and very compelling) claims he made about the necessity of the wall, I think it is fair indeed to say that he “lied” about his intentions to build one.
The second issue is the lack of support for American manufacturing. Would you agree that during the 2016 campaign, Trump expressed a desire to revivify American manufacturing, or at LEAST use the power of the state to make life a little easier for the workers whose way of life is being destroyed by globalism? Among many other comments, he expressed support for the Patriot Employer’s Tax Credit, which gave a break to employers who keep jobs in the country. There’s another bill that was being discussed in right-nationalist circles that was essentially an expansion of the EITC (I can’t remember if it actually got a name). These are the kind of promises he ran on—simple, common sense legislation that puts money and job opportunities directly into the hands of working/”non-college” families.
...Instead, by the end of that first year in office, he disavowed these ideas and gave us the disastrous 2017 tax bill, about which I have already spoken my peace on this forum. I absolutely think that this deception constitutes a “lie”. Do you think I’m wrong?