tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8591018003444406729.post7651596420746562557..comments2023-10-25T06:13:28.265-04:00Comments on The Conservative Wahoo: On the White House Immigration ProposalThe Conservative Wahoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17818674434286683162noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8591018003444406729.post-14058467842710511072018-01-28T11:11:18.046-05:002018-01-28T11:11:18.046-05:00Let me preface this that I was a never-Trumper unt...Let me preface this that I was a never-Trumper until November 5 2016 when I submitted reluctantly to doing my citizen duty.<br /><br />I think perhaps you frame the question in a way that arguably could missing some important facts. Your last statement about the ruin of a once great Party perhaps misses that Mr Trump is the exemplar and beneficiary of this ruin rather than its cause.<br /><br />Also it may be better to, as Selena Zito posited, take Mr Trump seriously but not literally. This could apply as well to his core campaign promises. The Art of the Deal and the observations of Scott Adams all point to flexibility as being essential to obtaining the end result.<br /><br />While I am daily unhappy with President Trump's antics and demeanor, I choose to judge the results over the long term. His incivility has been foreshadowed by much else in the culture and our politics, and it seems that he has moved the Overton window in a number of issues in ways I cannot imagine a more conventional Republican President being able to accomplish in the real, not the ideal, world.Rogers Olcottnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8591018003444406729.post-61547431039626685252018-01-27T08:47:13.330-05:002018-01-27T08:47:13.330-05:00I am not yet tired of winning. This is a win. I ...I am not yet tired of winning. This is a win. I think the DACA/Dreamer split is genius. If you had the opportunity to self declare and clean up your immigration status and chose not to? Permanent resident alien status, I am not going to deport you, but you don't get to vote. In ANY election. BigFredhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10442240891955984577noreply@blogger.com