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His trillion dollar infrastructure plan, which is vitally needed in this country where bridges and trains are falling apart, is going to be stopped dead in its
by yolesaber 10y ago
His trillion dollar infrastructure plan, which is vitally needed in this country where bridges and trains are falling apart, is going to be stopped dead in its track by Mitch McConnell. He flat out said it wasn't a priority.
It's going to be an awful four years where any of the good things Trump said (the stuff that resonated with Bernie supporters, renegotiating trade deals, infrastructure improvements, term limits and curtailing lobbyist influence ) are going to be flat out denied by this awful congress headed by one of the slimiest most cynical men in our history. Mitch McConnell's congress is a massive roadblock to progress.
- selimthegrim 10y agoI despise McConnell but he is looking down the barrel of a raid on the Fed - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12935834 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12935834 When push comes to shove and if Trump tries to suborn the Senate, McConnell, like Roberts on the Court, might be the great white hope.
- godzillabrennus 10y agoReading the subreddit The_Donald on Reddit it's blatantly clear that they share no love for McConnel and want him purged as they "drain the swamp". I'm not a Trump supporter but I'd be behind purging the Old Guard and bringing in new ideas.
- SwellJoe 10y agoMcConnell has opposed pretty much every reasonable element of Trump's campaign platform to "drain the swamp". On term limits, McConnell simply said, "We have term limits; they're called elections." And, was emphatic that Republican leadership would not be doing anything on that front. Interestingly, the last time term limits were a campaign promise was when Republicans swept the house back in 1994 with the "Contract with America", which included a Constitutional amendment to impose term limits on the house and senate...it turns out term limits are only attractive when you're not soundly in the majority. So, yeah, we're looking at four years of obstructing their own candidate on anything good or reasonable that an "outsider" might want to do. While pushing aggressively forward (or backward, as the case may be) on all the same stuff they've been outraged at Obama for over the past eight years.
- tormeh 10y agoHe could conceivably get support for the Democrats on some of those things. He doesn't necessarily need that many Republicans on his side. As a Republican president presumably more than zero senators might be willing to follow him against McConnell.
- BipolarElsa 10y agoI'm really hoping the Democrats break with their party and support Trump on the good stuff. I really do.
- danenania 10y agoTrump, for better or worse, is currently vastly more powerful than both McConnell and the rest of Congress. If Trump frames them as corrupt politicians standing in the way of 'Greatness' they will lose all support from the Republican base. They will talk a big game, but will have to back down if Trump forces the issue on anything. While it may work to get some populist laws through, this dynamic also makes us extremely vulnerable to an autocratic power grab.
- Ericson2314 10y agoI worry that people will lose attention after the election, but I hope they don't. Yes, it's hard to say this but absolutely the lose cannon of Trump over those normal Republicans. I guess that means let's hope Peter Thiel wins the power behind the thrown? :/
- mercer 10y agoI have this fantasy that Trump will be attuned to and care for the popular sentiment in good ways as well as bad. That he will steamroll some important changes that Hillary, Obama, Bush, and Bill wouldn't or couldn't. Unfortunately I can't help but fear for the bad things he might push for, whether prompted by those close to him or populist sentiment.