cartoon by A.F. Branco at legalinsurrection.com
At The American Spectator, Dov Fischer traces the sorry history of the liberal media branding a
(D) President as brilliant, and an (R) President as a bumbling moron,
regardless of the factual record. Then Fischer gets to President Trump. I am
posting the paragraph because it’s a handy and concise summary of the first
year of his Presidency:
But is the President stupid? It depends. Without any prior
political experience, he defeated a field of serious Republican candidates for
the nomination and then defeated a former United States Secretary of State,
U.S. Senator, Yale Law grad with half a century of political experience for the
Presidency. In a year, he has set the economy booming with a huge nationwide
increase in consumer confidence, a soaring stock market, sustained economic
growth exceeding three percent for consecutive quarters, muted unemployment, a
record number of successful appointments of federal appellate judges, and much
more. He has revived the energy sector, deregulated the economy, honored
promises from approving the Keystone XL and Dakota oil pipelines to recognizing
Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, induced allied world leaders to start
paying their fair share of NATO costs, sharply reduced illegal immigration
along our southern border, restored civil liberty protections to college
students accused of assault, promoted charter schools and school choice,
enacted the most overarching tax reduction in the past thirty years — perhaps
the most ever — and advanced an ambitious agenda for his second year. So, if
that is the mark of stupid, then this guy is a dope.
The most recent attacks on President Trump’s unfitness for
office or stupidity or [fill in the blank] prompted Trump’s response on
Twitter, branding himself as a “stable genius.” Which, as Scott Adams of Dilbert fame pointed out, was sheer genius itself, because Trump’s detractors
will keep referring back to his tweets, endlessly mocking him as a “very stable
genius.”
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