Trump

When I write about politics I usually stick to facts but once in a while, as a diversion, I play what if and today's game is what if Trump had been reelected in 2020. Everyone knows that Trump is a newcomer to politics and he is an enigma to many. To better understand Trump it helps to pay attention to what he does as opposed to what he says. For example he said that Putin was his friend but he placed severe sanctions on Russia. If Trump had been reelected he would have negotiated a peace with Putin by agreeing that Ukraine would not be invited to join NATO. This would have prevented the war and that alone would have been worth a Trump second term. Trump would have increased fossil fuel production to the max which would have kept energy prices low and avoided the inflation spike. He would have maintained his border policies which would have saved thousands of lives lost to fentenyl, cost the cartels millions, saved many women from trauma, prevented 85,000 children from being lost and major cities would not be overrun with migrants, many of whom are convicted criminals. He would have been a law and order president and offered strong backing to police. He would have continued the Abraham Accords and gotten Saudi Arabia to join with the other Arab countries to form an alliance against Iran. He would have kept the sanctions on Iran and not released their $150 billion in frozen assets. He would have added more items to the import tax list from China and pushed decoupling from China to bring jobs home. While this is only make believe it is a logical extension of Trump's first term. His opposition might claim that he would become a dictator and destroy our democracy but they would have to explain why he didn't do that when he was president. While both scenarios are possible the first is far more likely.