On the Donald’s Half-Assed Economics and the Payback Ahead
The hagiography of Donald Trump has started. The one below by the very evil Stephen Miller should be a wake-up call as to what lies immediately ahead. This dude is among the nastiest of the immigrant-howlers and border “invasion” propagandists, and he is heading straight for a high berth in the Donald’s government in waiting.
Needless to say, if he succeeds in duping Trump into launching a massive multi-million person deportation drive—complete with nation-wide midnight raids and swelling internment camps—right out of the gate on January 20th, the second Trump Administration will be stillborn.
On the one hand, such a misguided action would hammer tens of thousands of small businesses which employ 8.5 million illegal aliens in labor intensive industries across the length and breadth of the land, and which workers currently pay upwards of $100 billion per year in taxes. At the same time, a sweeping outbreak of litigation and Congressional intervention would also ensue, fostering bitter political polarization and legislative and judicial combat far more intense than what has already materialized to date.
Yes, there are undoubtedly a few thousand criminals who have been released into the interior under Washington’s absurd “parole” system, but those can be targeted as a matter of prioritized regular law enforcement. What is not remotely needed, however, is the arrest and deportation of millions of economic migrants who are filling the yawning gaps in America’s worker-hungry economy.
These hard-working folks at construction sites, warehouses, chicken-slaughtering plants, fast food joints, landscaping operations etc. are “illegal” only because Federal law requires them to violate an ancient Federal statute in order to get arrested, scheduled for an asylum hearing and paroled into the economy, waiting months and years for their hearings and adjudication.
This is Big Government statism run wild. In fact, if there were a decent sized immigration quota of say 500,000 per year for unskilled workers versus the current ludicrous cap of 10,000, none of these 8.5 million workers would be “illegal” or standing in the path of the Donald’s impending raids. To the contrary, they would have gotten a green card long ago and many of them would have already earned their citizenship in the regular way.
Yet here is Miller’s over-the-top valorization of Donald Trump, implying that the very gods of history have chosen him to thwart a foreign “invasion” that is nothing of the kind; and which actually represents the free market trying to balance labor supply and demand by working around the idiotic obstacles posed by the Washington politicians.
The electoral landslide achieved by @realDonaldTrump is not only the single greatest win in American Political history but in the modern history of civilization. Nothing else even comes close.
This is unparalleled, unmatched and unrivaled. He defeated the Bush Dynasty, Clinton Dynasty, Cheney Dynasty, Obama Dynasty, Biden Dynasty and the entire corrupt machine behind Kamala Harris.
He defeated every sinister Marxist prosecutor, every vile hoax, every DOJ witch hunt, every communist persecution, every illegal act of censorship and surveillance, and the ruthlessly politicized and weaponized justice system.
He defeated the corrupt legacy media, the political class, the donor class, the pundit class. He defeated not one but TWO Democrat nominees and their rigged primary. He defeated the corrupt Democrat Congress. He defied death itself and survived multiple assassination attempts. Trump did the impossible over and over and over again. THE BIGGEST VICTORY EVER SEEN. No comparison.
To be sure, much of the above describes the consequences of Tuesday’s election. The Cheney’s, Bush’s, Biden’s, Obama’s and the insufferable shills of the mainstream media all got their comeuppance, and a much deserved opportunity to pout and lick their wounds.
But for crying out loud. It wasn’t Donald Trump the super-politician, savior of the American Way and Horatio-at-the-Bridge who single-handedly and by force of will brought about Tuesday’s sweeping repudiation of UniParty rule. It was, instead, soaring gas and grocery prices which caused them to pull the GOP lever—a punishing, 40-year high inflation surge that was, ironically, caused by the Donald’s own lockdowns and spend, borrow and print madness of 2020, as we demonstrated yesterday.
So the question recurs. If Biden’s “bad” economy was largely the aftermath of the Donald’s bacchanalia of spending and stimmies was the Donald’s purported “good” economy all that it’s cracked-up to be?
In a word, no. Real economic growth during Obama’s second term averaged 2.43% per annum, while the growth rate was 2.31% per annum during Trump’s first 3.25 years before the Lockdowns hit in Q2 2020. What these figures convey, therefore, is not a break-away boom under the Donald, but a sub-par but continuous expansion of the post-Financial Crisis business cycle that reflected the resilience of America’s market economy, not the policy palaver and machinations emanating from either incumbent of the O
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