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I'm more optimistic than Richard about Trump.
Clinton's incompetence and imperialism were far more to be feared
than any flaws—which are mostly aesthetic and overspun by an empty,
nattering press—of his. Trump was smart to focus on bad trade deals.
It symbolizes the point he is making about the incompetence of prior
administrations, both GW Bush's—in such intrusive and costly acts as
NCLB and the prescription drug benefit entitlement program—and
Obama's failures, like ACA and the whole field of foreign policy.
The US does trade deals, not treaties, precisely so the complex
regulatory details of those deals will be renegotiable, not fixed into
stone. Trump is instinctively a free trader. But he is also a good
negotiator who understands and respects his fiduciary duty to the
entity he serves. This is no longer true of America's political
"professionals," like the naive ex-community organizer amateur,
Obama, or the nepotistic, inert Mrs. Grundy, who could not pass the
D.C. bar, and who intervened in Libya at the behest of her pal, Sid
Blumenthal. Government has a severe incompetence problem. That is
because it has a severe agency problem. It also has a dereliction of duty
problem, as Trump noted with respect to Obama's failure to enforce
border control law. This was a brilliant policy moment. It showed that
Trump understands what the chief EXECUTIVE is supposed to do. To
enforce the law. Not promise to make large piles of new ones. Trump is
also correct that the best trade and contract talent in America now works
in the private sector, not in government. I look forward to the infusion
of new talent by a President Trump, and to the necessary shake-up of an
increasingly corrupt and sclerotic, and simply TOO LARGE federal
government, that a Trump victory would bring.