Donald Trump: The Most Libertarian President - returning executive power to congress

[Bigdog]

"Despite all the Never Trumpers predicting economic turmoil, more deals with “Chuck and Nancy,” and triangulation towards big-government liberalism, President Donald Trump has so far proven to be the most libertarian president since Calvin Coolidge.

On multiple fronts, Trump and his advisors, notably Mick Mulvaney, have managed a record-setting list of accomplishments that leave past self-aggrandizing constitutional conservatives in the dust. On key issues of regulatory reform, rolling back federal power, appointing constitutionalist judges, and rethinking America’s place on the international stage, Trump is setting the gold standard for future libertarian and conservative presidents.

To start with, the Trump administration has been rolling back federal regulations at a faster speed than any other first-year president. As of October 12, 469 government rules have been stricken from the books, more than twice and three times the numbers of George W. Bush’s and Barack Obama’s first years respectively. And according to Neomi Rao, the administrator for the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, the Trump administration has either withdrawn, delayed, or placed under reconsideration more than 1,500 total regulations, which will save the economy more than $570 million annually.

On the international stage, Trump has moved away from the liberal internationalism of the past, taking the United States out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which many libertarians have argued didn’t actually promote free trade, and the Paris climate treaty, which would have cost the U.S. an estimated $3 trillion. United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley also announced a $285 million reduction in the U.N. budget for the 2018-2019 fiscal year. The president additionally signaled in a tweet on January 1 that he plans to cut foreign aid to Pakistan and Palestine. And while Trump isn’t the pacifist that many of his libertarian supporters had hoped he’d be, especially when comes to the war in Afghanistan, his first year in office saw a radical decrease in American involvement in Syria, with an end to aid for CIA-backed rebels in the region.

The Trump administration is also conducting the Defense Department’s first-ever audit, which will hopefully lead to fat-trimming from its massive $639 billion budget.

Another first is Trump’s move to devolve executive power and restore Congress’s checks and balances. Unlike his predecessor, Trump is not governing through executive fiat and has kicked the ball back to Congress on a number of issues, including DACA, Iran sanctions, Obamacare subsidies, and 15 regulatory nullifications, which is 14 more than all the other presidents combined.

Of course, Trump’s longest standing accomplishment will be his record-breaking number of judicial appointments, ... "

https://www.theamericanconservative....ce-silent-cal/

[Sirthinksalot]

I was one of the "hold your nose and vote for Trump" crowd. Obviously he was a much better choice than Hillary. I must admit, I was pleasantly surprised. I can overlook a lot of his ham handed comments because I have enough brains to judge a politician based on what he does, not what he says.

[Jade Dragon]

[Sirthinksalot]

So you won't freak out when people bear hug you all day tomorrow? That's a relief!

[Granule]

Does blackasscoal undertand this?

[domer76]

He delegates because he is incapable of managing those issues and concepts himself. Kicking the ball is an appropriate description.

[Phantasmal]

I was one of the "hold your nose and vote for Trump" crowd. Obviously he was a much better choice than Hillary. I must admit, I was pleasantly surprised. I can overlook a lot of his ham handed comments because I have enough brains to judge a politician based on what he does, not what he says.

That’s a cop out, sorry.

[Cancel 2018.1]

I was one of the "hold your nose and vote for Trump" crowd. Obviously he was a much better choice than Hillary. I must admit, I was pleasantly surprised. I can overlook a lot of his ham handed comments because I have enough brains to judge a politician based on what he does, not what he says.

I'm trying. I really am.

If he had just STFU and done his Reagan act once in office, he could have been reelected, but he has dbled down at every turn
on the asshole factor.

Sometimes McSlawber gets it right.

[Sirthinksalot]

That’s a cop out, sorry.

Cop out from what?

[Cancel 2018.1]

That’s a cop out, sorry.

What do you think is more important, what one does or says?

[Bourbon]

LEt’s be clear, Donald J Drumpf is Child, an Ass-Hole, Bigot and Racist ... the last thing Drumpf is, is Polical or a Leader.

[dukkha]

What do you think is more important, what one does or says?

seriously? Long after Trump is gone tax reform endures. hopefully he can wrest ICBMs from lil Kim

Put it this way: for all of Obama's flowery oratory "what difference does it make at this point?"

[countryboy]

LEt’s be clear, Donald J Drumpf is Child, an Ass-Hole, Bigot and Racist ... the last thing Drumpf is, is Polical or a Leader.

Irony, you've got it.

[christiefan915]

He delegates because he is incapable of managing those issues and concepts himself. Kicking the ball is an appropriate description.

What I was thinking. It's a fancy way of saying trump's a lazy slug who only wants to play golf.

[katzgar]

What I was thinking. It's a fancy way of saying trump's a lazy slug who only wants to play golf.

Bingo that