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| Jonathan Ernst/Reuters |
Former president Barack Obama recently continued his series of public broadsides against his successor, President Donald Trump.
Obama’s charges are paradoxical. On one hand, Obama seems to believe that he, rather than Trump, should be credited with the current economic boom and the emergence of the United States as the world’s largest energy producer. But Obama also has charged that Trump’s policies are pernicious and failing.
Apparently, Obama believes that all of Trump’s successes are due to Obama, and all of Trump’s setbacks are his own.
Obama certainly forgets the old rule: Presidents, fairly or not, get both credit and blame for everything that happens on their watch, from Day One to the last hour of their tenures — even when wars abroad, technological breakthroughs, natural disasters, and market collapses have nothing to do with their governance.
Trump ran on the promise of a “Make America Great Again” economic renaissance. He pledged massive deregulation, fair rather than free trade, and tax reform and reduction.
Trump jawboned against outsourcing and offshoring, and praised rather than lectured private enterprise. He sought to reindustrialize the Midwest and promised to open new federal land to fossil-fuel production, complete proposed pipelines, and lift burdensome restrictions on fracking and horizontal drilling.
In contrast, Obama had argued that the U.S. could never drill itself out of oil shortages. He advocated making the use of coal so expensive that it would disappear as an American energy resource. Renewable energy sources such as wind and solar were Obama’s vision of an America energy future.Read the rest from Victor Davis Hanson HERE.
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1 comment:
Not going to read the rest. It's sad what has happened to VDH and those like him. They twist themselves into knots trying not to see the truth about Trump.
I will say that the upward trend in the economy is not due to Trump. All you have to do is look at the trajectory from Obama years to now to see that Trump has nothing to do with it.
Also, Obama was right about coal. It's not beautiful.
Trump is his own worst enemy. Trump has few successes, and too many failures to count. He is a walking nightmare. And he surrounds himself with people who make things worse. If you can imagine that.
-Martha
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