Trump is not ideological, and, thank God, not an intellectual. VDH, in a piece on the deplorables, notes that Trump has been directing the ship of state in a more-or-less ordinary, practical centrist direction.
Deplorables grew furious as amnesty Democrats and especially corporate Republicans preached about the values of open borders and unchecked illegal immigration—but never quite experienced first-hand the effects their policies had on distant others. Influential advocates of lax border security tended to put their kids in private schools, lived in mostly apartheid communities, saw illegal aliens largely as cheap labor and personal servants, did not have any personal desire to live among, befriend, tutor or mentor those they championed—and assuaged their guilt by blasting their own fellow conservative with charges of xenophobia and nativism...
Yes, Centrist. It's only in contrast to Obama that he seems conservative.
And, in international affairs, he has been better than most of his predecessors. Obama, for one, was an embarrassment to the US. Even China humiliated him by making him get out the rear of his airplane with no big welcome.
US jobless claims fall as record run persists. Anybody who wants a job can get one.
In other words, things are going just fine. Not perfectly, but ok. Let's be grateful.
