VDH: President Nobama
Donald Trump is undoing, piece by piece, all the main components of Obama’s legacy.
by Victor Davis Hanson
January 19, 2018
Trump is commonsensically undoing, piece by piece, the main components of Obama’s legacy.
Donald Trump continues to baffle. NeverTrump Republicans still struggle to square the circle of quietly agreeing so far with most of his policies, as they loudly insist that his record is already nullified by its supposedly odious author.
Or surely it soon will be discredited by the next Trumpian outrage. Or his successes belong to congressional and Cabinet members, while his failures are all his own.
Rarely do they seriously reflect on what otherwise over the last year might have been the trajectory of a Clinton administration. Contrary to popular supposition, the Left loathes Trump not just for what he has done. (It is often too consumed with fury to calibrate carefully the particulars of the Trump agenda.)
Rather, it despises him mostly for what he superficially represents.
Too many progressives and indeed elites of all persuasions, Trump is also the Prince of …
 |
|