When our founding fathers gave Supreme Court justices life tenure on the bench, the goal was to shield those serving on the court from the political pressures of the day. Today’s justices, however, are polarized along partisan lines in a way that mirrors our other broken and gridlocked political institutions.
Reform please.
Trump has two (yes 2) accomplishments during his current presidential tenor:
1. Gave the rich a great tax cut which did nothing for the middle or lower class.
2. Trump has appointed two Supreme Court justices – Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh – as well as nearly 200 other judges with lifetime appointments to lower federal courts.
That's it...golf, fox tv watching and hamburders.
Note: not a Trump supporter because character matter but policy wise he lines up closer to me than Biden—yet regardless this is wrong:
I am middle class (Though maybe not for long) and got a tax cut so don’t know what you’re talking about—less of a refund but also less paid in total amount. This was especially true if you have a child due to Rubio’s threat to vote against it without an expanded child credit
I suppose if you don’t pay any income tax then yes—letting people keep more of their own money isn’t a winning idea for you. Taxes did go up for some CA/NY/IL rich people with the SALT deduction being eliminated. Bit of a complex thing to get into here but this is the only way they went up
But yes corporate tax being lowered includes small businesses. Again I guess if you see businesses and those who run them as evil capitalists who should be nationalized and taxed to death entirely then yes—I can see why you wouldn’t like this.
And regardless Tim Scott and Cory Booker’s bipartisan amendment was part of the act—the one that created Opportunity Zones allowing states to designate economically distressed and neglected communities and creating incentives for investments into those areas—something that has injected 75 billion dollars into those areas so far:
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house-trump-opportunity-zones-raised-75b-to-rebuild-poorest-communities
Not to mention a start to criminal justice and sentencing reform in the form of the First Step Act with overwhelming bipartisan support and backing from everyone from Bernie Sanders to Mike Lee and the Koch Brothers to the ACLU
Similarly he did some work on police reform via executive order even as Tim Scott’s bill was filibustered by Senate Democrats—even earning praise from Van “communist” Jones:
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/watch-cnns-van-jones-praises-trumps-policing-executive-order-as-a-step-in-the-right-direction/
Personally I visited Bahrain, UAE and a couple other Gulf countries en route to see family back in India when I was younger and anti Semitism was so casual, frequent, vicious and entrenched (Mein Kempf is a top seller in some of these countries). Never thought I would see the day those countries would openly acknowledge and cooperate with the state of Israel. That genuinely impressed me—especially when combined with not starting any wars unlike a bunch of Presidents before him.
Similarly matching with my liberal (the actual meaning of the word) dovish foreign policy on everything but China (which I am glad is seen finally as the threat it has always been saying that as someone with family and ethnic ties to India and Vietnam who are directly at risk from China), I appreciate NATO allies having to pay their fair share
And it’s small but I LOVE defunding foreign aid from the terrorist state of Pakistan—who sponsors brutal terroristic violence against Indian and Afghan civilians—not altogether different from the genocide it carried out against Bengalis (Muslims, Hindus and Chrstians) in 1971 as the Indian Army liberated Bangladesh—and whose PM has called Bin Laden a martyr before Parliament. The same country who Obama threatened to veto any legislation against, repeatedly called a great ally and begged Congress to send more fighter jets to to “fight terrorists”—-LMAO
Enough to overlook corruption, deficits, lack of character and division?
No probably not but this a flat out lie