A Nod To The Gods

As for who should replace him, anyone who can get a nod from the Senate and will continue to promote what Trump has been doing and I have been honking about since Bush43:
(1) decouple from being the world’s policeman,
(2) get our NATO allies to pull their fair share of the load. 2% isn’t exactly asking for a lot.

Again, we’re fine.
– We are mostly in the Middle East due to strategic inertia and to tidy up problems generally of our own creation. We don’t need their oil anymore.
– While our debt issues are huge, we are in better shape than any other major nation on the planet. When the music stops, the world will groan, but we will hurt less than almost anyone else.
– We feed ourselves.
– Our entire hemisphere is of zero threat to us.
– The only real global challenger we have will be China  and we have absolutely ZERO reason to have a land dispute with them on mainland Asia. Any conflict will – if we are smart about it – be mostly an air and sea conflict for us, with any land force hopefully limited to islands.   Keep reading….

H/T found at Aces place

You can’t make a deal with Democrats, they have no intention of following through.

Trump needs to demand what he wants, if they won’t give it to him, take it.

Most civilization is based on cowardice. It’s so easy to civilize by teaching cowardice. You water down the standards which would lead to bravery. You restrain the will. You regulate the appetites. You fence in the horizons. You make a law for every movement. You deny the existence of chaos. You teach even the children to breathe slowly. You tame.

Frank Herbert (1920–1986), American science fiction write, God Emperor of Dune (1981)