If there’s one thing that drives me the most crazy about the “I don’t like his tweets but I’ll vote for him anyway” crowd is that they always extol the virtues of his allegedly successful presidency which I just do not remember. His policy success was almost nil and to the extent it just coasted on what came before. His tax bill had little to do with him and he spent most of his time reversing policies that had come from previous presidents.
Still, those who want to separate themselves from the embarrassing parts of Trumpism while still supporting it always say that he was really a good president except for his personality:
Chris Mudd is the hands-on founder and CEO. He checked in with the crew, made a point of thanking the homeowner for her business and then took a moment to reflect on Midwest Solar’s swift progress.
“Our first 12 months I think we averaged three or four systems a month. … It was tough. Today, we are doing 15-20 systems a month,” Mudd says. “We lost money the first year we were in business and we’re going to make money our second year. I think that’s good. Starting a business from scratch is very difficult.”
Yes, he says, some of the credit goes to President Joe Biden’s clean energy initiatives – particularly tax incentives for solar systems.
“Absolutely,” Mudd says. “There are lots of grants available to business owners. The tax credit is at that 30%. Absolutely.”
But Mudd is a lifelong Republican, would prefer that tax credit money instead be spent on a border wall and is rooting for a Donald Trump comeback – beginning here in Iowa – to make that happen.
“Do I think Donald Trump’s perfect? No,” Mudd says. “Personally, I’m not a big fan of who he is and what he does and how he lives. But I think the decisions and things that he did for the country were good.”
No, actually they weren’t. And this supposedly common sense, moderate guy is as subject to the propaganda as the rest:
“I think he’s the best guy for the job,” Mudd tells us. “I wonder why they are attacking him so hard. Why are they going after this guy so hard? Does everybody really believe what happened was exactly the way that the government is laying it out today? I don’t.”
Maybe they’re “going after him” because he’s a criminal?
Anyway, I have to say that I appreciate the fact that Chris Christie is attacking Trump on the substance of his supposedly great conservative policy achievements, such as they are. It’s meaningless, of course, because these people are all brainwashed. But it’s good to have it on the record anyway:
His legacy is betrayal of the country and rank corruption. But he was a terrible president in every way. His domestic policy was all over the place and his foreign policy was even worse. He rode Barack Obama’s economic recovery as it was finally picking up and then dropped the ball on the greatest crisis he faced: the pandemic. He was an utter failure in every sense of the word and these so-called “moderates” who reject MAGA are just as deluded as the nuts who wear the horns and wave the big blue Trump flags at the boat parades.