Which of Trump's policy issues do you believe that people should come together on?
That's up to you, whatever you think is important. It's your country, and its problems are legion. But the advantage of having someone so clueless signing off on all legislation is that, given the right approach, you should be able to get him to sign anything.
I asked the question specifically because I'm having a hard time thinking of policies proposed by the Trump administration that are worthy of support. I'm reasonably sure that no attempt has been made to compromise or come to an agreement on anything. What you're saying sounds nice in theory, but I need a few practical examples to figure out if your idea makes any sense at all in real life . . . and it doesn't seem like you could come up with any either.
But let's try your approach here. I'll just take a few examples of things Trump has said and throw some support behind them.
- Trump says that some Nazis are good people. We should therefore agree that being a Nazi isn't that bad. Maybe we should encourage Nazis to hold more rallies? Hold a white power holiday on Hitler's birthday? What level of Nazi support do you propose here?
- Trump says that Mexicans are rapists. We should therefore agree with Trump and increase policing of only Mexicans in the US?
- Trump says that black NFL players who take a knee during the national anthem are disrespecting the flag. We should work with Trump to infringe their right to free speech? We should follow Trump's advice and fire them all from their jobs?
- Trump says that the Mexican judge overseeing the Trump university case cannot be impartial because of his race. Therefore we should work with Trump to prevent any person of Mexican heritage from presiding over a case involving a person who has made racist comments about Mexicans?
- Trump says that Obama is a secret Kenyan Muslim, who was not born in the US. We should therefore have the FBI investigate this claim?
- Trump said that he wanted to ban Muslims from entering the US. We should therefore work together with Trump to implement a religious based ban for immigrants?
- Trump has said that the media is the enemy of the state and the people. We should therefore implement legislation with Trump to allow the government to control what is reported by news stations?
- Trump has said that he supports the execution of families of suspected terrorists. We should therefore support Trump in extrajudicial killings of people suspected of being related to people suspected of being terrorists?
This is what you're looking for? These are
all important issues. I just don't support the direction that Trump does on any of them. You're saying that I need to compromise though.
A hint: calling him a racist tyrannical demagogue is not the right approach. In all of human history, hurling abuse at someone has not once managed to convince them to do or say what you want. That the abuse is more than justified is irrelevant; in fact, abuse with truth to it will be more likely to make the person back up and oppose you just out of spite.
You can keep on waiting for the "right" person to be elected President, and the right House, and the right Senate, and the right State Governors and legislatures... or you can work with the ones you've got.
Or you can continue in pointless internal conflict. This is probably inevitable at this stage in your history.
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Your initial assumption seems to be that Trump is called these things because people don't like him. I disagree. For example, he's called racist because of the overtly racist policies he supports and actions he takes. Pointing out when someone is racist is not hurling abuse, it's just pointing out the truth. If Trump stopped doing racist things, I suspect that the accusations of racism would dwindle.