Trump is running on a small, sharply focused set of promises: build the wall/restore sovereignty, set the conditions for a thriving economy that produces good jobs, get the debt under control, rebuild the military, fix the VA, and rip up bad trade deals to be replaced with deals favorable to the US. These are the promises he will put all his time and energy into. The results will astound.
Forgot one: repeal Obamacare in full.
That would be an intriguing idea, if only he'd kept his mouth shut about his hopes for undercutting moral issues! If he's so focused on those "narrow priorities" (and lots of those promises strike me as "pie in the sky" on which he can't realistically deliver--he just doesn't have the power/authority to do any of them, unilaterally), then why did he even need to COMMENT on tearing apart the last vestiges of moral framework for the nation? No one forced him to opine on those issues; he could've said, "My priorities are jobs and security; don't ask about anything else!"... but no, he let his "inner liberal" shine through, when talking about abortion and sexual perversion. He really doesn't seem to have any moral compass at all... which is just Obama by another flavor, in that regard.
I'd like to agree with you on the "fix the structural things first" approach... but that doesn't work. When a country falls into moral decay, its collapse is inevitable... no matter how good the roads and walls are, in the meantime. And when the decay reaches a critical point, the people will have abandoned the work ethic necessary to BUILD these walls and sound financial structures and deals; they'll be too busy clamoring for bead and circuses.
“Trump is running on a small, sharply focused set of promises: build the wall/restore sovereignty, set the conditions for a thriving economy that produces good jobs, get the debt under control, rebuild the military, fix the VA, and rip up bad trade deals to be replaced with deals favorable to the US. These are the promises he will put all his time and energy into. The results will astound.”
He doubles down on that, btw, in a New York Times interview today about what his first 100 days as president would be like (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/05/us/politics/donald-trump-president.html?_r=0).
Article basically says talking with diplomats and foreign leaders will not be a priority. At all.
Guy’s all about “America First.” That’s his focus. Looks like he means it.