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42 sats \ 4 replies \ @SimpleStacker 29 Apr \ parent \ on: How do you feel about Trump's first 100 days. AskSN
I only meant easy in the sense of politically easy, of making himself and the republican party more popular, with high approval ratings.
IMO if he limited himself to cracking down on wildly unpopular things, like DEI, transgender in sports, and deporting criminals, and left the government agencies and tariffs untouched, he'd probably have a much higher approval rating.
Of course he would be... that should tell you something about the state of the US. That's not good.
Do you think the gov agencies are all needed and efficiently run? Do you think they are staffed with people that only want to serve the needs of their countrymen?
I don't. Its a massive bureaucracy full of organizations that suffer from the Iron Law of Bureaucracy.
So... it makes one wonder. Maybe Trump doesn't prioritize popularity over his mission. Whatever that is.
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I absolutely think that many agencies should be cut and/or be made more efficient.
I don't know if I want him to die on that hill and I just worry that going after the deep state too hard will just result in a failure of much more doable priorities, like rolling back DEI and getting immigration under control.
For example, look at what happened in Canada. I don't think that's a positive development and it clearly can be blamed on Trump pushing too hard on certain issues.
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For sure. Plenty of his decisions are dumb to me and counter productive. I think the going hard on fed gov with Elon was good. If nothing else it was education for future generations. The Canada stuff is just dumb and counterproductive. But my views are massively different from Trumps. I would rather see the US become smaller not bigger. Adding Canada would be a terrible idea.
I do like that Trump's tariff stuff is triggering the left to suddenly discover Bastiat, lol.
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