Republican strategist Michael Steel doesn’t get it:
This is clearly not the campaign the president wanted to run. Trump’s initial strategy, before the pandemic set in, was clear. Look at his 2020 Super Bowl ad, which seems like a quaint relic from a bygone age. Titled, “Stronger, Safer, More Prosperous,” it lays out the administration’s then-impressive economic record (‘best wage growth in a decade’ ‘sinking unemployment’).
When the president followed good conservative public policy (like tax reform and cutting red tape), the results were excellent. It’s also worth looking back at the ad his team ran during the World Series last fall, which said, “He’s no Mr. Nice Guy, but sometimes it takes a Donald Trump to change Washington.” [The Dispatch]
“If it wasn’t for Covid-19” is the message behind Steele’s post, “then Republican religious tenets would have won the day!”
But it’s simply not true. 20,000 lies would remain to be explained away, and for the stickler who notes that some of those lies are connected to Covid-19 and thus should be excluded, the first 18,000 more or less guarantee that even without Covid-19, the lies would have kept coming. He is what he is.
Their adherence to the Laffer Curve, a primary religious tenet, was proven to be unwise by the mountainous deficits run by the Federal government after the 2017 tax reforms were passed into law.
Source: St. Louis Fed
This long time strategist, who may be seen as instrumental in building a culture which permits a Donald Trump to become President, clearly doesn’t understand that in order to avoid a repeat of the current four-year fiasco, it’s necessary to understand that the entire party, including himself, must take the blame and investigate how to adjust to become, once again, a responsible governance party – and not a party that merely seeks to win and reap the treasure that supposedly comes with it.
