Even the most ardent Trump supporters have to admit that his administration was marked by soaring highs in public policy and personal behavior that struck new lows.
President Trump was the right man for the job when he was inaugurated for one simple reason: the American economy was continuing to sputter, and he put his knowledge as a businessman to work. Prior to the pandemic, the economy was reaching new peaks because it was not being run by policy wonk bureaucrats, but by people with street smart business sense.
In terms of foreign policy, Trump managed to do what every modern president has promised but failed to achieve in the Middle East. By moving the American Embassy to Jerusalem, Trump caused a domino effect that brought some serious Middle East peace deals to the table.
Russia certainly remains a threat to the world, but they slowed down their territorial ambitions on Trump’s watch. Likewise with China, Trump stood up to the communist despots, and while the Democrats in Washington, D.C., howled, the “trade war” with China brought back a surge in manufacturing jobs stateside.
For pro-life conservatives, Trump was a God send. He worked on defunding Planned Parenthood and placed three solid conservative justices on the Supreme Court.
Oh, if he could have just kept his mouth shut. Even Trump’s closest supporters saw the constant late-night streams on Twitter as rude, pedantic and embarrassingly un-presidential.
To be fair, Trump is a New Yorker, and he behaves like a stereotypical New Yorker: brash, loud, and sometimes profane, which turns off many people who have different sensibilities.
Now Trump becomes the first former president to face impeachment proceedings twice. Is he guilty of causing the insurrection that saw the halls of Congress violated? Well, it is debatable, but under the legal definition, likely, no he didn’t.
However, his angry rhetoric and defiant attitude did little to quell the riots.
The Democrats who now control Washington want to impeach him a second time so that Trump never can run for office again, and they might get their way this time around.
Perhaps, once Trump is away from Washington and back living at Mara-Lago, he will reflect on how his behavior played a huge role in his being denied a second term and will work to make his post-presidency life that of a statesman and not a childish bully who turned so many voters off.
