On Wednesday's post, a commenter asked me how I claim to be a conservative, when I don't endorse Trump's Americanism. I wouldn't call Trump's agenda American values, and Mackenzie's sycophantic behavior may well be a bad bet on his part. His reported answers on the WFMZ Iannelli interview were way too safe for me.
The most independent that he could be was to agree with Iannelli that certain behaviors were wrong, such as going after political enemies, but he stopped way short of calling Trump out on them. Closing the border is a horse that can be ridden only so far.
When science research against cancer is defunded, and a president babbles on against Tylenol, people with a grade 12 education wince. When enough people wince, over one misstep or another, that party suffers in the midterms. The WFMZ interview was an opportunity for Mackenzie to present himself as his own man...he failed to do that.
In terms of being independent and your own man, this blog (me) has moved more to the center. As a conservative independent, many of my readers are Republican. Many people cannot understand that there are independents like myself, who really do not adhere to one party or another. Likewise, they may not understand that this blog is not written for monetary compensation. I express my opinion, readers are welcome to come and go.
This isn't my first post critical of Mackenzie. It is my hope that he comes to assert himself when Trump introduces a flawed policy, and I can vote for him in 2026.
Well, I certainly hope you won't vote for a baby-killing, child-perverting Democrat!!!!!
ReplyDeleteanon@1:48: I haven't really moved more to the center, but I do want to put more room between your sort of statement and myself.
ReplyDeleteWith all due respect, you can label yourself whatever you choose. Regardless of label, your continued attempts to malign President Trump has reached a level of obsession. It takes up too much space here.
DeleteTry to understand, this is President Trump's LAST term. Anything you say or do cannot change that.
I prefer to read a balanced debate over a specific Trump
accomplishment that meets/does not meet the goal of making America a better place than it was before.
Today's message apparently is, do not vote for Ryan Mackenzie because Ryan Mackenzie is too soft on Trump. OK then, who else to choose, and why?
Republican canidates in the 2026 congressional and local elections need to support traditional conservative values, not all of which are Trump/MAGA values.
ReplyDeleteDomestically, the second Trump term has been reletively successful, although he has been governing nearly exclusively by Executive Orders, which is extremely disturbing to me, as that smells of a dictatorship governed by the will of one person, and not that of a consensus of Americans.
When it comes to funding measures, this is where Trump will need to learn the word "compromise", as the Congress is pretty evenly divided and the President does not have the authority to issue E.O.s on spending bills.
It is Trump's foreign policy that I object the most strongly to. The United States does not cower to war criminals and tyrants in order to make 'deals' with them that are imperialistic. Trump wants to enrich the United States through trade deals and his policy of punitive tariffs flies in the face of 80 years of our previous trade policies.
The United States built an empire after World War II not just on our economic and military power, but we also strongly supported freedom, liberty and democratic forms of government. That is what made the US a superpower. Not with cutthroat buisness deals with dictators and tyrants such as Putin.