You see, this is where I stop giving you the benefit of the doubt.
Obviously the economy is doing well, but unemployment is down (including Black unemployment)
No.
Reduction in unemployment has slowed under Trump, including black unemployment. And that's despite the hugely irresponsible and costly deficit spending.
and wages are finally rising
LOL NO. Are you serious, dude?
Real wages
fell in 2017 by a measure greater than at any point since 2009. It's hard to really blame Trump since the drop seems like it almost
has to be some sort of anomaly, but wages are not "finally rising."
Based on what? The fact that he's not trying to expand entitlements? Can you think of any other candidate that would use tariffs to keep American jobs in the USA? Can you think of any other candidate with the courage to renegotiate NAFTA and walk about from the nation-ending disaster that was TPP?
(i) Anti-populist based on: passing giant tax cuts for the rich after promising that he would raise taxes on the rich and that his tax plan would not be good for him personally, shifting the tax burden onto the middle class and with his party's express objective of cutting social security later, union busting and going after labor rights and worker protections, gutting consumer protections and cutting oversight of predatory lenders and swindlers, gutting protections for pensioners and retirees by deregulating Wall Street, saying he would crack down on lobbyists and then going the complete opposite direction, deregulating polluters and chemicals that have sickened millions, privatizing and profit-izing the public sector to the benefit of the Betsy DeVos of the world, the mere appointing of corrupt cunt executives to the government in the first place.
All of those things are to the tangible benefit of the rich and to the tangible detriment of the poor.
(ii) Do you have any evidence that those tariffs have kept American jobs in the country?
(iii) The only basis that you could say TPP was a "nation-ending disaster" that is policy-coherent is a far-left perspective about the effect on labor protections and the international value of, and ability to anchor, human capital. I'd be very interested to hear your right-wing critique of how TPP was "nation-ending" since it was largely a right-wing, free-market brain-child.
There's a reason presidents don't do things like that: they're afraid to piss off the lobbies that got them elected. Trump is the only president who doesn't owe favors to various lobbies and power brokers. He got himself elected with all the force of corporate America pushing against him. So how is he "corrupt?" Are you basing it off this discredited "Russian collusion" hack job narrative?
His corruption has nothing to do with Russia. It has to do with blatant and unprecedented conflicts of interest in the administration and complete opaqueness of its intersection with the private sector. And that's without considering the agency of his myriad of corrupt stooges: Tom Price, Scott Pruitt, Ben Carson, Betsy DeVos, Steve Mnuchin, Ryan Zinke, and all the ones being carried out in shackles.
Honestly, if you think Trump's corruptness stops at Russia, then that's all I need to know about taking you seriously.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/january-february-march-2018/a-year-in-trump-corruption/
https://sunlightfoundation.com/tracking-trumps-conflicts-of-interest/
And frankly, Trump's performance speaks for itself. Obviously the economy is doing well, but unemployment is down (including Black unemployment), and wages are finally rising. Trump is singlehandedly reviving industries that Obama's government attempted to murder. You might not care about that, but workers in the Rust Belt sure do. Face it: Trump is a great President, and we are damn lucky he came along when he did.
Yeah, you went full retard.