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Jonathan's avatar

Tax reform, hard pushback against China, obliterated ISIS, regulatory streamlining, tons of conservative judicial appointments.

His reduction of personal and corporate income tax, coupled with imports on Chinese imports, was a master stroke. His policies actually increased real wages for lower income workers, reversing long term stagnation, thanks largely to this tax policy. The experts howled that it wouldn't work, and he proved them wrong.

He pushed through a rule that prohibited pharma from charging higher prices domestically than for the same drug in foreign markets. The Biden admin reversed that rule when they took office--and then reinstated it so they could claim credit.

He did all this with basically the entirety of the administrative state aligned against him. This time around, he'll be much better prepared.

And many of us are hoping RFK Jr will be a key player in that effort.

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George the Zeroth's avatar

So to keep this on-topic, how many of those things did he promise, and how many of his promises (and which ones) did he keep?

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Jonathan's avatar

The list I offered is comprised of promises Trump made, and kept.

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