The biggest threat to Trump not getting things done isn't the democrats. It's the GOP Congress fracturing again and not backing his play.
It's hard to say if he's softening on the hardline repeal DACA and such related BS - H1Bs - and that fiery stance instantly garnered him a LOT of support, so if he is backing off that as he listens to knuckleheads urging him to back off that for political reasons when his entire platform was Renegade, it will sink him.
That said, I'm not entirely sure he is backing off those issues or simply putting it on the back burner for the moment. He's taking a lot of flak from Coulter and other early supportive conservatives for appearing to soften, so we'll see how that shakes out.
And, yeah, SCOTUS was - and is - a huge concern and we've got that safe with a great chance to replace 2 more good originalist justices. It wasn't too long ago that all of us were dreading what was going to happen with Hellary appointments and things were looking bleak indeed. Don't forget the position we'd be in with 3 more Bader-Ginsburgs - it's not too far fetched to say that such a scenario would have destroyed this country and that's a sobering thought - overrun by terrorists, unarmed, underemployed with $8/gallon gas we buy from our OPEC overlords with insurance no one can afford as we helplessly spiraled to a larger version of Venezuela.
I think that all of us would like to see more of his visions implemented immediately, but I'm not sure that all our expectations as far as a timeline are realistic. I'm willing to give the man a chance as he gets up to speed... there's a tremendous amount of learning involved and campaign promises are easily made but not always easily implemented despite the best efforts.
It's a fledgling administration and I'm confident that things will get smoother soon and the momentum will build. The only real danger is lack of support from the GOP as I see it, and if that happens then all is lost. At that point I'll be in the 'Let the GOP burn' camp. I don't know what other realistic political alternatives there are - it certainly isn't the wacky Libertarians - but I'm thinking there will be millions more like me in the same mindset and a new, better political party will be born.
Last edited by NightTrain; 05-04-2017 at 03:04 PM.
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