Shameless Left accuses Trump of doing what they're doing.

Vincent J. Curtis

6 Apr 20


The Associated Depressed is full of opinionated pips these days.  In an opinion piece headlined, "Trump using pandemic to push braoder agenda" writer Aamer Madhani, a name I’d expect to see in the credits of “Leave it to Beaver”, implied (what's the AP doing issuing signed opinion pieces?) that Trump is illicitly using the pandemic crisis to push his agenda.  Those items are: to bring back the entertainment tax deduction, for tightening the border, and for a protectionist tariff policy.  “Never let a crisis go to waste” is the ‘old adage’ Trump is allegedly following.

That 'old adage' was coined by Rahm Emanuel in 2009 while Barack Obama’s Chief of Staff, said in reference to the financial crisis of that day.  It was most recently invoked by Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-GA) and Queen Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) who tried but failed to stuff the Green New Deal and other Democrat hobby-horses into the first pandemic financial relief bill in March.  Whatever the Left accuse you of doing, they are doing precisely that themselves.

Trump campaigned not on protectionism but on America First, by which he meant that the United States could not afford to have vital industries shipped to China and to need China for supply of crucial goods.  What we have seen is that Trump’s industrial policy and strong border policy are being amply justified in the face of this crisis.

The business of the return of the entertainment tax deduction comes from a businessman’s experience of the repeal of the deduction, and Trump suggested it as a means of stimulating the restaurant business when the crisis is over.

The hate-Trump media have learned nothing.
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