{"id":53423,"date":"2024-01-17T10:19:49","date_gmt":"2024-01-17T15:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=53423"},"modified":"2024-01-17T10:19:49","modified_gmt":"2024-01-17T15:19:49","slug":"things-president-trump-got-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=53423","title":{"rendered":"Things President Trump Got Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First of all, why is President Clinton always referred to as President Clinton and President Trump often referred to a Donald Trump? Subtle manipulation by the media?<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/2024-election\/2024\/01\/14\/new-york-times-columnist-admits-trump-three-big-things-right\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Breitbart<\/a> posted the following headline:<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">New York Times Columnist Admits \u2018 Trump Got Three Big Things Right\u2019<\/h1>\n<p>If you honestly look at President Trump&#8217;s accomplishments and record as President and compare it to where we are now, your choice in November is obvious.<\/p>\n<p>The article analyses The New York Times article:<\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The January 11 article was\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/01\/11\/opinion\/columnists\/donald-trump-election.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">posted<\/a>\u00a0under the headline: \u201cThe case for Trump \u2026 by someone who wants him to lose.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Stephens wrote that \u201cyou can\u2019t defeat an opponent if you refuse to understand what makes him formidable [and] too many people, especially progressives, fail to think deeply about the enduring sources of his appeal.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>&#8230;\u201cEnforcing control at the border \u2014 whether through a wall, a fence or some other mechanism \u2014 isn\u2019t racism,\u201d Stephens wrote. \u201cIt\u2019s a basic requirement of statehood and peoplehood, which any nation has an obligation to protect and cherish.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Trump also caught the public\u2019s mood of decline and pessimism, Stephens wrote.\u00a0\u201cFar too little has changed since then \u2026 If anything, Trump\u2019s thesis may be truer today than it was the first time he ran on it,\u201d Stephens admitted.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Trump also amplified the public\u2019s falling trust in experts, professionals, and merit institutions that were supposed to be independent of politics, Stephens wrote.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>&#8230;Many voters in 20224 will remember Trump\u2019s first term fondly, he said. \u201cAmericans have reasons to remember the Trump years as good ones \u2026 Wages outpaced inflation, something they have just begun to do under Biden.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I question the claim that wages have begun to outpace inflation. What used to be a $75 trip to the grocery store is still about $125. President Trump represents the hope of the American people that someone will speak up for them in Washington. We don&#8217;t want the government meddling in the home appliance market. We don&#8217;t the government performing S.W.A.T. raids on citizens that are not a threat to society. We don&#8217;t want the government refusing to enforce the law when Supreme Court Justices have their homes unlawfully picketed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First of all, why is President Clinton always referred to as President Clinton and President Trump often referred to a Donald Trump? Subtle manipulation by the media? On Sunday, Breitbart posted the following headline: New York Times Columnist Admits \u2018 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=53423\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10348,6252,3357,4760,9202,8123,34,10589,274,9747,15266,9360,8558,11188],"class_list":["post-53423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-breitbart","tag-breitbart-com","tag-donald-trump","tag-grocery-store","tag-home-appliance","tag-inflation","tag-new-york-times","tag-president-trump","tag-supreme-court","tag-supreme-court-justice","tag-supreme-court-justices","tag-target","tag-the-new-york-times","tag-wages"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53424,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53423\/revisions\/53424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}