Why Trump is pissing me off this time around isn't so much what he's doing. I actually agree with reducing the size of government and renegotiating trade with other nations and other such things, but I'll be damned if he isn't doing those things like a god damned maniac. A trade war with China needs allies and he alienated some of our most important by doing the across the board tariff thing. As someone whose first discomfort with our deal with China was no later than seeing China Construction of America signage all over the construction of new campus buildings in college 20 years ago, we need someone with more finesse doing this. I doubt the deal will be good or real, but I have a feeling he's going to knuckle under and call a return to basically the status quo a win. The big budget package needs to include some serious funding changes to make his executive order laborforce reductions something of a fait accompli in the face of legal challenges. Leave Powell and the Fed alone. Exercise some restraint on the deportation side of things. He doesn't need to alienate many to alienate enough to possibly turn one house of Congress blue. I think his attacking everything all at once is doing that. Outside of some very real things, however, most everything else coming from the right and left surrounding his presidency is just noise trying to cancel out the other side's noise. I'm mostly just shrugging these four years.
