First of all, I’m writing this post knowing full well that most of the posters here will launch an unhinged anti-Trump fusillade. I’m assuming that risk. Notwithstanding, Bari Weiss provides an excellent lesson about Trump that we should all learn. We killed good to excellent ideas Trump championed for no reason other than Trump is an asshole of the first order. Weiss mentions debt, the border and the Middle East as examples of current disasters because we killed killed Trump policy. I would add energy and education to the mix. Unfortunately we can’t change because it’s easier and more fun to talk about people instead of ideas.
In any event, read the whole thing. Weiss confronted reality and learned from it.
Border wall was completely about the message. Everyone coming across the Southern border were in 'hoards', and they were rapists and murderers. Just like when it came time to stop flights due to COVID, it was flights from China. The latter didn't last long, as all international travel was shut down, but he ran on bigoted language regarding immigration.
He wasn't interested in immigration. He was interested in pea brains, using fear and bigotry to unite the gullible.
You want to build a wall? Great! Build it on its merits. Figure out how to fund it.
Trump's Israeli plan? Let's be frank. Only Israel agreed with it. Even the Israeli's in the West Bank settlements didn't agree with it, and Israel tried to use it as a land grab. It didn't really established Palestine as an independent sovereign state, more like a territory of Israel.
Other countries who didn't outright reject the plan (there is a lot of obvious answers on that one) viewed US efforts as appreciative, but noted they were still in support of the UN's two state solution.
It was dead on the vine before Trump left office.
That BLM is against a sovereign occupying force isn't exactly news. That extreme members of the black community appear anti-semitic isn't news either. Until BLM starts to lean toward acting like Hamas domestically, there isn't much interest in caring about what BLM thinks of Palestine and Israel.
Israel isn't innocent in all of this, and calling out its government and policies as a whole aren't anti-semintic. Even while in negotiations with the Trump administration, they were acting as bad actors toward the agreement, as they repeatedly planned to annex more territory in the West Bank.
At some point that is has to be more about Israel's failed policies than anything the US did or didn't do, in hand with Palestinian rigidity on 'holy land'. Of course the last part of that is more of my view on religion as a whole. It's very much part of why Palestinian hopefuls never really came to the table on Trump's plan.
You can try to blame Biden and wokeness all you want, but it wasn't closed to being solved or even really heading in any peaceful direction under Trump. As soon as Kuschner abandoned 'two state' rhetoric, it was dead on the vine, and most of the peace talks did was delay inevitable violence that's been going on for decades.
