I didn't defend the gun control proposals. I'm simply saying he's trying to thread a political needle at the moment, because the Left which has picked up some momentum on the heels of this tragedy in Parkland, Florida.
When all is said and done, there will be little or nothing to complain about as far as gun legislation—a pattern which has been borne out on nearly every issue.
And if you think the President hasn't earned some loyalty and trust by now, then you're being willfully blind. And "this isn't a dictatorship"? What's that supposed to mean in the context of having earned loyalty and trust? You're challenging the President failures, but completely ignoring the good that he has done—which is quite substantial.
Simply because the President is more in line with the vast majority of the People—instead of the extreme right—on the DACA issue doesn't make the proposal "amnesty" a multi-year, multi-step pathway to citizenship isn't "amnesty". You seem to be in that school that seeks to make the perfect the enemy of the good.
You didn't cite onepositive thing in your rant—just lopsided exaggeration and pearl-clutching. At least I'm willing to contrast the good and the bad. No such balance from you.
You must have really had to hold your nose to vote for Donald Trump in November 2016. He's far from perfect—but magnitudes better than anyone else that could have won.
And it is playing 5D chess for the President to give some lip service to these gun proposals. We'll see where things shake out once any actual legislation hits his desk. But given the outcome on virtually every issue thus far, I'm predicting that your apocalyptic projections will not materialize. Maybe someday you'll understand that shrewd politicians actually have to be politicians sometimes. In fact, I've never seen one who didn't have to be disingenuous on occasion.
Given President Trump's accomplishments thus far—in only one year—he has earned loyalty and trust. Ultimately, your gratuitously dismissive attitude regarding the President's bona fide accomplishments, and apparent obsession with only the negative does aid and abet the Enemy, inasmuch as it's completely lacking in balance. The glass is half empty with Trump for you. I get it. For me, it's definitely half full.
A lot of the #NeverTrump crowd ultimately voted for Trump, so you having done that doesn't mean you're not a #NeverTrumper. You'll certainly resemble a #NeverTrumper until such time as you have something good to say about the man. You seem pretty reluctant to do so, judging by your flippant dismissal of his accomplishments thus far...
So, his pro-gun grab hectoring of Republicans today was just “lip service?”
No, it’s the real Donald Trump. Opportunistic populist. Not a conservative.
Cut him slack for doing the same types of sell-outs we saw from W? I won’t.
When he does something conservative or libertarian, I praise it.
However, he’s rapidly moving to the mythical center, selling out the base as a means to build a broader coalition. He’s counting on conservatives having nowhere to go as the lesser of two evils strategy is applied in 2020.