Trump’s impeach o’meter just keeps climbing and climbing

It has been just under a year so let’s take a look back at Trump's first year. He would have you believe it has been going well. He takes credit for the biggest tax reduction ever. It may be, but where will the reductions be seen. Several pundits have criticized his reductions as favoring the rich and corporations and if you listen to them, there’s a lot of truth to what they say. Things like expiration, corporate tax rates, permanence, at what expense, … all come into the mix and I am not going to go into details here, but it is clear though that it favors the rich and corporations. Does that surprise you? It shouldn’t! Depending on your point of view, it can be said he has some accomplishments – his judicial appointments, drilling in ANWR, still touting border walls, getting out of the Paris climate accord, the dreamers, he’s still against Obama care, appointments, Bannon lost his job at Breitbart … but if we are to be realistic, not much!!! He talks the talk, but doesn’t seem to be walking the walk except for doing things that make no sense to me. ISIS is losing and that is something I can support.

Let’s look at the other things though. We are closer to nuclear war whether or not Trump and his Whitehouse credits his policies toward, bickering with, and the threatening of North Korea as a sign of progress or, more precisely, progress toward Kim Jung Un’s capitulation of his nuclear ambitions – which North Korea denies. They base this unfounded conclusion on the fact that the Koreas did agree to have the North participate in this year’s winter Olympics. I happen to agree with South Korea’s more diplomatic approach. Diplomacy not isolationism works in this day and age. It also remains to be seen whether his isolationism and resultant policies and positions on trade, climate change, and other international efforts are going to work. In my view, they won’t. That is becoming clearer and clearer almost every day. I probably won’t read Michael Wolff’s book, Fire and Fury, even if it is a best-seller, but I trust the New Yorker magazine. In an article, Masha Gessen wrote just the other day, “So why has a poorly written book containing this information, padded with much tedious detail, become an overnight sensation, a runaway best-seller, and the topic of every other political column, podcast, and dinner conversation? It seems we are in bigger trouble with reality perception than we might have realized.” Unfortunately, it is not a “fake news” quote, but it is a sign of the times!!!

Will 2018 be the year the impeach o’meter starts to redline and something is going to be done. I think so!!! It can’t end any other way. That’s good news for those of us who still maintain some semblance of reality and how the world works.

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