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Although I always appreciate the somewhat unbiased opinion Sofrep provides, I feel this went in to what was said, the negative and was left off there at each point. There was no negative and positive breakdown. Unless of course you felt there were no positives. I’m no policy expert, though I did read into the last 2015 NSS quite a bit before.
When I listened to President Trumps speech on it, I was impressed and felt it went deep into things the things he had promised during election and subtracting from others from the last NSS. I am glad to hear what your thoughts were but am curious if you thought much was a positive step away from the last NSS.
It almost sounds like the plank he ran on as far as the goals he wants to achieve. We all know how that went last year. Even his own party disagreed on most of those goals. The only clear achievements are that he has placed conservative judges in key positions as well as good men in charge of defense and national security, and calling that an achievement really depends on whether you are progressive or conservative. If the new tax bill passes, that also will be acclaimed or disclaimed depending on your professed partisan (or state’s) position. On everything else, he’s been curbed pretty tightly from running off the track. (Not running off at the mouth…just off the track.)
I don’t see the headwinds he’s facing dying down any in the next year. It will take a national disaster to pull Congress together, and then it may not necessarily be behind him. He’s more like a bastard child being put at the helm of the family business where there are others that have had much more grooming for the role. It will be even more interesting next year watching how the m s m and the parties treat him.
I think the markets are poised to take off when this tax bill gets signed. Perhaps that’s just a selfish hope. I also think that there will be more incidents that will justify his tight stance on immigration though that is something for which I definitely don’t hope to see played out. Just as there is much going on in the world that m s m isn’t talking about, I think there is much in the government that is working better for changes he’s called for that is not making news. I get a glimpse of it every so often in Gov Exec newsletter when they are not dissing the C I C.
Anyway, short of nuclear war with NK or new wars breaking out involving Russia or China or Iran (or Israel), I think next year may be even more interesting to watch unfold than this one has been.