NR: Trump At Year One

It was the best of terms, it was the worst of terms...

I agree with this...but more so.

Trump is driving me fucking crazy. Trump fatigue has turned into Trump dread. I fear the internet and fear the news because I don't want to know what idiotic thing he's said or done most recently...

And yet...I still think he's plausibly--perhaps probably--the best President of the 21st Century...and perhaps a great President in many ways. I consider political correctness / woketarianism the greatest threat to America and the West at least since the USSR...and maybe even since WWII. It's a plague of madness that is rotting the country from the inside. And Trump is the most important opposition figure. He seems to do hard things well and easy things terribly. If we were to look only at the positive side of the leger--or even if we just ignored his unforced errors--he would likely be a great President. (Note: not all Presidents would be great even by that permissive standard...Biden, for example...)

   The turnaround on illegal immigration--just to take one example--has been phenomenal. And Americans support his policies. But...he can't seem to get the bullshit marketing strategy right. All he needs is a point man who doesn't come off like Darth Vader's little brother...that is, somebody not like Stephen Miller. But he can't manage it. He plays right into the insane left's strategy of weaponizing feels. He comes off as mean and vindictive...which he kind of is...but also kind of isn't..

   Consider Ukraine: Trump's approach, shitty and chaotic though it's been, has been the most humane: stop the slaughter. The Euro-shitheads are milling about randomly saying things like Sacre bleu! and American blue-team types are saying things like (one has said exactly this to me) We should be willing to fight to the last Ukrainian... 

   Anyway...sorry...back to open borders: he may lose this battle yet.

   And if he does, we are right and truly screwed.

   Of course he's done many things by executive action...and as the Spamburgler has shown, the next crazy Democrat (but I repeat myself) to hold the office will likely just undo it all...

   Compare Trump's Iraq strategy to Obama's. Good Lord. Night and day...

   Well, I'm just repeating myself here.

   But, yeah...Trump has been the mixedest of bags to occupy the office in my lifetime. And, really, if he could just keep his big fat mouth shut, he might save Western civilization...

...but, of course, he can't do that.

Not to save his life...nor even to save Western Civilization...