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Those of you who read this blog regularly might be thinking: What will it take for this guy — that would be yours truly — to say something truly positive about Donald J. Trump?<\/p>\n

I’ve said I’m trying to keep an open mind about the next president of the United States. And, no, “trying to keep an open mind” isn’t code for “not a chance in hell” I’ll ever say anything good about the guy. I mean what I am saying here.<\/p>\n

What will it take? What can this guy do to earn my unvarnished, unqualified praise?<\/p>\n

Let me think:<\/p>\n

*\u00a0He can order a military strike that destroys the Islamic State, forcing the terrorists to give up the fight.<\/p>\n

*\u00a0Trump can enact policies that bring jobs back to the United States of America, which he contends are fleeing this country by the thousands for places like Mexico and China.<\/p>\n

*\u00a0He can implement border policies that effectively end illegal immigration into the U.S. of A.<\/p>\n

*\u00a0The president can persuade Congress to pass laws that incentivize private businesses to hire more people, thus reducing the jobless rate even more than the dramatic reduction we’ve seen already during the Obama administration.<\/p>\n

*\u00a0POTUS can get Congress to reduce taxes on all Americans while spending\u00a0money on infrastructure improvements without<\/em> piling up the national debt and increasing the annual federal budget deficit.<\/p>\n

* He can order\u00a0the next\u00a0attorney general to go to war against hate groups that have risen to prominence since he announced his presidential candidacy.<\/p>\n

* Trump can issue a heartfelt apology — the real thing, man, not just some phony\u00a0“If I have offended anyone …”<\/em> non-apology — to the many\u00a0individuals and groups he denigrated\u00a0while running for the presidency.<\/p>\n

These are the issues that come to mind immediately. I’d settle for any one or two of these things to occur. I am on board if he is able to do any of it.<\/p>\n

My confidence remains quite low, I am saddened to say, that he’ll do any of it.<\/p>\n

However, there’s always tomorrow.<\/p>\n\n

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Those of you who read this blog regularly might be thinking: What will it take for this guy — that would be yours truly — to say something truly positive about Donald J. Trump? I’ve said I’m trying to keep an open mind about the next president of the United States. And, no, “trying to … Continue reading Hoping for Trump to earn praise<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1112,1424,2245,2348,2362],"class_list":["post-18615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-congress","tag-donald-trump","tag-immigration","tag-isis","tag-islamic-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18617,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18615\/revisions\/18617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}