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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Sun Jan 22, 2017, 10:24 AM Jan 2017

Speech Dims GOP Hopes for a Traditional Trump Agenda

January 21, 2017 By Taegan Goddard

New York Times: “While some of his advisers suggested that he would slip back into a more conventional Republican approach, Mr. Trump dropped hints in interviews, Twitter posts and other public comments that he intended to push his party away from its free-market, internationalist dogma on trade, foreign alliances, immigration, infrastructure spending and prescription drug access.”

“The hints are over.”

“An inaugural speech delivered with the same blunt force that propelled Mr. Trump’s insurgent campaign has dashed Republican hopes for a more traditional agenda. With his “new decree,” he declared himself modern America’s first populist president — and all but dared his own party to resist his Republican reformation.”

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https://politicalwire.com/2017/01/21/speech-dims-gop-hopes-traditional-trump-agenda/

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Speech Dims GOP Hopes for a Traditional Trump Agenda (Original Post) DonViejo Jan 2017 OP
True. truebluegreen Jan 2017 #1
The pivot is coming any day now Trekologer Jan 2017 #2
 

truebluegreen

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1. True.
Sun Jan 22, 2017, 11:04 AM
Jan 2017

But the speech was red meat for his fans, and it seems already that Cheeto will have absolutely nothing to do with the day-to-day operations of government, or pushing legislation. He will do photo ops and signing ceremonies, go to parades and rallies etc. while the usual pukes pull everything done around our ears. And if confronted about it, he will just lie (no, really, gutted Medicare/Medicaid/Social Security is New and Improved, Bigly Better Than Ever, The Best!)

If he does step too far outside the box, the pukes will impeach and we will have the more biddable Pence.

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