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US, 65, male, conservative, veteran, university professor. He may well surprise the world. He can be compared to Theodore Roosevelt who believed the US had a great future and believed in a strong nation that considered its self interests. Time will tell.
Contextualization: United States, 40 years old, male.
Trump's contribution is and will be highly negative. Trump causes respect for the presidency to degenerate both in the United States and around the world. No world leader should ever act the way Trump acts consistently. Personally, I hope America can escape major disaster until the next presidential election.
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I generally see Trump's presidency as a continuation of George W. Bush's presidency, but with the veneer of respectability dropped. To use more precise terminology, I consider the Trump presidency a hard neo-conservative, oligarchic presidency. The results of this resumption are as follows:
1) Pushing the overton window further right.
2) Continued deregulation of industry and commerce.
3) Increasingly aggressive foreign policy.
4) Increased income inequality within the nation.
5) An increase in authoritarian practises.
Again, these policies were not unique to Trump; previous Republican presidents exhibited these same policy trends, and Democratic presidents from the 1980s and onwards incorporate similar, albeit less extreme, foreign policy.
From a personal level, I consider the current presidency a negative that built upon nearly forty years of bad policy and poorly-conceived supreme court cases (Buckley v. Valeo, 424 U.S. 1 [1976]; First National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti, 435 U.S. 765 [1978]; Exxon Shipping Co. et al. v. Baker et al., [2008] :Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, 558 U.S. 310 [2010]) It is a continuation of ongoing trends towards a total oligarchy, which researchers at the University of Stanford have classified the United States of America as in a 2014 article entitled Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens.
Hopefully this is a sufficiently-defined opinion for your purposes. Please let me know if you want clarification on any points.
Thank you for the feedback Quentin,
Best regrads.
US, 65, male, conservative, veteran, university professor. He may well surprise the world. He can be compared to Theodore Roosevelt who believed the US had a great future and believed in a strong nation that considered its self interests. Time will tell.
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Sex: Male
I think what's most interesting about Trump's impact on public policy in the US, is the legacy he'll leave. Many believe that he is an exception, the norms which he can (and is) breaking will simply return to the status quo ante bellum, this is yet to be seen - surely some norms will resume pride of place in expectations from policymakers, but he shows that such norms can be broken as long as your base is mobilised enough and your policies are targeted at your base (potentially to the detriment of others, and their expectation of what you can or should do while in office). I won't try to pre-suppose the mid-terms which may serve as a good yardstick by which to measure his impacts.
I'm not convinced that there is a going back after Trump, the Rubicon is crossed and he defines potentially a new political era (or moreover one that has come to the fore), whether we love that or hate it (specifically from my point of view as a European, as I've no say in the matter) he's tapped into something that may change expectations from policymakers.
However, it's my view that on the legislative front he's been a bit of damp squib and we haven't seen a great deal of policy to measure him by (that's not to say there has been no policies advanced - just not as many as was expected)
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