Donald J. Trump will address the Libertarian Party National Convention on Saturday. The Libertarian Party should nominate Trump for president of the United States. The reasons for doing so — policy and politics — are as solid as the Hope Diamond.
“Libertarians are some of the most independent and thoughtful thinkers in our Country, and I am honored to join them in Washington, DC,” Trump stated. “We must all work together to help advance freedom and liberty for every American, and a second Trump Administration will achieve that goal.”
This event is unprecedented. As Cato Institute President Peter Goettler observed in Thursday’s Washington Post: “It will be the first time in U.S. history that a presidential candidate of a rival party will address the convention of a party that is presumably gathering to nominate its own candidate.”
Trump turns conventional politics upside down every day. A Republican rallying some 8,000 adoring fans … in the South Bronx?
Inconceivable!
Inconceivable!
And, yet, Trump did precisely this on Thursday evening.
Trump should ask for the Libertarian Party’s endorsement based, largely, on his presidential record. Reminding his audience about the measures that he implemented should make their freedom-loving hearts soar:
The $1.5 trillion Tax Cuts and Jobs Act was America’s largest infusion of tax relief in history. It sliced individual tax rates for all taxpayers and slashed the corporate tax rate from a punishing 35 percent to a globally competitive 21 percent. Immediate expensing of business equipment and other reductions fueled the best economy in 50 years. Black and Hispanic unemployment cratered to their historical nadirs. Female joblessness slid to levels unseen since the Eisenhower era. Black poverty collapsed to record lows. And, of all things, income inequality shrank, not by squeezing the rich but by lifting the poor. Between 2016 and 2019, before COVID-19 ruined everything, real median-household income grew 16.4 percent under Trump, up $9,664.
Trump cut red tape as never before. He promised to kill two old regulations for every new one. In fact, he scrapped eight old rules for each fresh one.
Trump restrained inflation. Prices were rising just 1.4 percent as he left office. This was a fraction of the “9 percent” inflation that lying Joe Biden repeatedly claims Trump handed him.
Likewise, before Biden’s record-breaking post-COVID spending spree, the 30-year mortgage rate as Trump departed was 2.77 percent versus 6.94 percent today.
Trump’s “Drill, baby, drill!” approach fostered energy independence. Low fuel and electricity prices helped moderate inflation and propel economic growth.
Trump rescued America from the economically crippling Paris global-warming treaty. Instead, he amplified fracking and liquefied natural gas to provide abundant power with half of coal’s carbon dioxide — for those who fret about such things.
Trump promoted parental rights and school choice and reauthorized and funded the Washington, D.C., school-voucher program.
Trump’s Education Department repealed the so-called Title IX guidance letter that turned mere on-campus sexual harassment accusations into de facto criminal convictions. Trump restored due process to the he said/she said minefield.
In a powerful blow for free speech, Trump required universities to respect the First Amendment, lest they lose their federal funds.
While Trump and Republicans never repealed Obamacare, they torpedoed that hideous law’s individual mandate, junked several of its taxes, and sandblasted a few of its rougher edges.
Medical price transparency empowered consumers to shop for health care services and compare costs, as is routine in every other industry. This competition should slow ballooning health care expenses.
Trump signed Right to Try: Terminally ill patients now can receive experimental and possibly life-saving treatments before those drugs win full FDA approval. When at death’s door, what do these suffering Americans have to lose?
Trump nominated some 200 constitutionalist federal judges, including a seldom-seen three Supreme Court justices in one presidential term.
Trump cancelled and defunded federal diversity, equity, and inclusion programs and other state-funded racism schemes.
The VA Mission Act, which Trump signed, lets military veterans receive federally funded medical care in the private sector, if delays prevent their treatment in VA hospitals.
Trump signed a measure that streamlined dismissals of federal bureaucrats who abuse America’s beloved veterans.
Rather than burden U.S. taxpayers with the full cost of NATO, Trump pressured America’s NATO partners to obey their promises and dedicate at least 2 percent of GDP to the alliance’s collective defense. Trump named and shamed NATO’s deadbeats until they coughed up $100 billion in fresh funds from European treasuries, rather than American wallets.
Trump brokered the Abraham Accords, namely, Israel’s four peace treaties with the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan, and Morocco. Add unprecedented solidarity with Jerusalem, the obliteration of the ISIS caliphate, and the diplomatic and military isolation of Iran, and the Middle East began to resemble a safe neighborhood.
Trump’s personal diplomacy with Kim Jong Un did not denuclearize the Korean Peninsula. However, Pyongyang’s underground atomic-bomb tests, which repeatedly rocked the Obama–Biden administration, stopped under Trump.
Trump paired his overall national-security posture — Peace Through Strength — with a strategy that one might call: “Speak loudly and carry a big stick.” What critics decried as chaos and bullying yielded for Trump and the American people the first presidency since Jimmy Carter’s in which the United States did not enter a new war.
Most libertarians would say that this non-exhaustive roster of accomplishments truly shines.
But, many would ask, what about the areas in which Trump’s libertarian bona fides lacked luster?
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“We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent people.” ― George Orwell
Quote: EdJames wrote in post #2Worth clicking through for the whole article.... so many of the accomplishments of the Trump administration are long forgotten....
Not really forgotten, just effectively buried by the MSM and their Democrat masters.
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"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
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