{"id":2030165,"date":"2023-09-13T05:24:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T09:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trumpism-2-0-inside-the-former-presidents-plans-for-a-second-term\/"},"modified":"2023-09-13T05:29:46","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T09:29:46","slug":"trumpism-2-0-inside-the-former-presidents-plans-for-a-second-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trumpism-2-0-inside-the-former-presidents-plans-for-a-second-term\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s Second Term: Unveiling Trumpism 2.0"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrumpism-2-0-inside-the-former-presidents-plans-for-a-second-term%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2030165&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Trumpism 2.0: Examining Donald Trump&#8217;s Flagship Policy<\/h2>\n<p>Donald Trump&#8217;s 2016 flagship\u200d policy was famously &#8220;Build the Wall.&#8221; The \u2064early rounds of the 2024 campaign have been dominated by Trump&#8217;s stranglehold over \u2062the competition, as\u2062 well \u2063as his multiple court cases. Underneath the bluster and chaos, \u2062the former president\u200d has rolled out \u2064a significant number of new policy proposals that have gone without scrutiny, until now. This <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> series,\u2063 Trumpism 2.0, will\u2062 take \u200ca closer look at this policy, if it&#8217;s realistic, and\u2062 if it&#8217;ll help Trump secure a second term.<\/p>\n<h3>A Shift in Focus: Trump&#8217;s New Agenda<\/h3>\n<p>Donald Trump has outlined an agenda \u2062shorn of the vestiges of GOP orthodoxy that marked\u200b his first administration in favor of an omnidirectional trade war abroad and renewed culture wars at home.<\/p>\n<p>The former president\u2019s policy plans \u2064have been overshadowed by his legal troubles and \u2062his efforts to relitigate the 2020 election, to the extent that the public may not be aware of his promises, but they have been spelled out in an ongoing series of videos and fact sheets posted to his website and filled in around the edges by comments to the press.<\/p>\n<h3>The Trade War: Escalation\u200b and Consequences<\/h3>\n<p>The centerpiece \u2064of Trump\u2019s trade proposals is \u2063the passage of a law, the Reciprocal Trade Act, that would allow him to unilaterally impose tariffs of \u2063equal size of any tariffs placed by \u2063other countries on the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has also floated 10% across-the-board \u200ctariffs.<\/p>\n<p>The measures \u2062are billed as narrowing the trade deficit and supporting domestic manufacturing jobs. They\u2019re also advertised as safeguarding the country\u2019s supply chains, which, as \u2062the pandemic exposed, are often reliant on foreign nations for critical goods like medicines and certain critical\u2064 minerals.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, a trade war would not be new \u2064for Trump \u2014 he carried out a major \u2063dispute \u2062with \u200bChina, in particular, in his first term.<\/p>\n<p>But his new proposals would entail \u2064a challenge not just to U.S. trade with any one country and not just a retreat from the free-trade ambitions of \u2062recent GOP party \u2063leaders like George W. Bush and Paul Ryan but also to the international rules that have gone mostly unchallenged for decades.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, it would \u2062hearken back to the Smoot-Hawley\u2062 Tariff Act of 1930. That was signed into law by then-President Herbert Hoover and raised tariffs on thousands of goods with the aim of protecting employment. But other countries retaliated and world trade suffered,\u200d which some historians have argued \u2064contributed to the Great Depression.<\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey Frankel, a member of President\u200b Bill Clinton\u2019s Council of Economic Advisers, told the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> that the Trump playbook on trade would deal a blow to the WTO, though he noted \u2064the organization has already been knocked down a peg thanks to the tariffs \u2062from Trump\u2019s first term, which President\u200d Joe Biden has largely continued.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed trade agenda \u2063would not only drive an economic wedge between\u2064 the U.S. and its partners in Europe and elsewhere, but it could also further strain relations with some \u200cof America\u2019s closest allies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt hurts our international diplomatic relations, but \u200dit\u200c also hurts the international \u200ceconomy as it affects the U.S.,\u201d \u2062Frankel, who is a professor of capital formation and growth at Harvard University, said.<\/p>\n<h3>A Shift in Focus Away from Fiscal Conservatism Domestically<\/h3>\n<p>For years,\u200c conservative Republicans \u200bin Congress, led\u200d by eventual House Speaker \u2062Paul Ryan, built the case for bringing down the trajectory\u2064 of federal debt by overhauling Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Following the rise of the tea party in 2010, Republicans \u2062also spent enormous political capital rallying to \u2062replace Obamacare (although the party has since moved on after failing to repeal the law). Together, those entitlement programs make up roughly half of\u200b government spending, excluding interest payments on the debt.<\/p>\n<p>A Trump presidency would put such \u2062fiscal conservatism in a deep freeze.<\/p>\n<p>His platform features\u2063 a pledge not to \u201ccut a single penny\u201d from\u200d Social Security and \u2062Medicare. On the healthcare finance system more broadly, it is silent.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, in recent days, his advisers and allies have suggested that Trump may pursue an extension and enlargement of his 2017 tax cuts, including a reduction in the corporate tax rate from the 21% rate set in 2017 to 15% or lower. An official plan for tax cuts has been notably absent from Trump\u2019s campaign platform so far, though, including for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/huge-fiscal-cliff-looms-for-the-president-and-congress-after-election-cycle\/\" title=\"Impending fiscal cliff for president and Congress post-election.\">individual income tax provisions<\/a>\u2063 of the overhaul, which are set to expire\u2064 in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>With the federal debt held by the public \u2064at \u206395% of GDP \u2064and set to grow in the years ahead, though, tax cuts and increased spending would\u200d be a\u2062 risky mix.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe idea of cutting taxes further is silly when we\u2062 haven\u2019t even figured out how to extend\u2064 the \u200bcurrent tax cuts,\u201d said Brian Reidl, a budget\u2062 expert at the conservative Manhattan Institute who \u2063has put forward plans for stabilizing the debt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Trump\u2019s economic policies are based almost entirely on political vibes without any real\u200d coherent vision for the economy\u200c and for our fiscal solvency,\u201d Riedl said.<\/p>\n<h3>A War on Crime and Drugs<\/h3>\n<p>Rather \u200cthan fiscal conservatism, Trump\u2019s domestic agenda is focused on law-and-order conservatism.<\/p>\n<p>He would stake out a far more aggressive stance on crime and would attempt a crackdown on drug traffickers, human traffickers, and the Mexican cartels.<\/p>\n<p>Ambitiously, Trump said that he wants to ensure that\u2062 those who are caught trafficking children across the border or smuggling drugs are given the death penalty.<\/p>\n<p>Some of his \u2063plans would stretch \u2063the constitutional boundaries on the federal government\u2019s role in managing state and local affairs.<\/p>\n<p>He is calling \u200bfor new spending to hire and\u200c train police officers. He would\u200c require law \u200cenforcement agencies that receive Department \u2062of Justice grants\u200c to employ much tougher policies on crime, including by \u200dcracking down on the open use of drugs and implementing \u201cstop and frisk,\u201d the practice of stopping \u2064people suspected of carrying weapons \u200dand subjecting \u2063them to \u200dsearches, employed\u200d controversially in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>Such methods have lost favor as the public has grown more sensitive\u2062 to accusations of racial profiling and as liberal prosecutors have gained office in many \u2062major cities. But Trump \u200bis\u2063 now \u200cproposing\u200d to target those prosecutors, specifically those whose elections\u2062 were financed in part by liberal donor George Soros, with DOJ investigations.<\/p>\n<p>And \u2062if local law enforcement is seen as falling short, Trump has also called for mobilizing \u200dfederal forces, like the\u200b National Guard, to counter criminal activity \u200band violence.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u200b envisions even more extraordinary efforts\u200c to counter the epidemic of drug overdoses, which claimed the lives of over 100,000\u2064 Americans last year, by mobilizing the military against \u2064Mexican cartels that deal drugs. Part of that would be a naval embargo on cartel operations, and another part would be direct military action \u2064to inflict \u201cmaximum damage\u201d on cartels.<\/p>\n<p>The idea of \u200dmilitary incursions into Mexico would have been mostly unthinkable until recently, but that has \u2064gained some support among\u2064 Republicans in Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the most eye-catching facets of the agenda might not\u2062 have the deterrent effect that tough-on-crime advocates would hope\u200d for.<\/p>\n<p>Officials struggle to follow through on the\u200c death penalty, noted Sean Kennedy, visiting fellow at the conservative Maryland Public Policy \u200dInstitute.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt would be\u2062 more effective to do something that\u2019s a guaranteed outcome \u2014 that these people are going to spend \u200ctheir \u200dlives in prison or that they will actually be \u2063detained \u2063and the charges will be brought against them,\u201d Kennedy said. \u201cRight\u2062 now, most of these \u2063individuals aren\u2019t being charged with kidnapping or other \u2063federal crimes that would do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nor is the recent history of\u200d threatening to withdraw \u200cfunding promising.\u200d For \u2064example, former Trump Attorney General Jeff Sessions attempted \u200cto \u200dpunish \u201csanctuary cities,\u201d localities that\u2062 refuse to cooperate with federal officials on immigration enforcement, \u2064by clawing back funding. But his efforts \u201cwere \u200dstruck down time and time again by the judiciary,\u201d\u200d Kennedy said.<\/p>\n<h3>A War on Homelessness<\/h3>\n<p>To address\u2063 urban \u2064homelessness, a problem that has worsened in major cities in recent years\u200b and is often tied to drug abuse and crime, Trump would embrace measures that most mayors would consider out of \u200dbounds or impossible.<\/p>\n<p>He has called for working with states to simply\u200d ban urban \u2064camping, giving those in the encampments the option of treatment\u2062 (in newly created tent cities built for that purpose) or arrest. He has also advocated the reinstitution of mental institutions for those who \u200ccan\u2019t \u2063function in society due to \u200csevere mental illness.<\/p>\n<p>Jon Guze, a senior fellow for legal studies at the John Locke Foundation, said\u2062 that, in addition to being tougher\u2064 on crime, the U.S. has to\u200c be tougher on \u201cdisorder.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe took a wrong\u200c step in the\u2062 1960s when we decided to deinstitutionalize\u200c the mentally ill,\u201d Guze said. He said many homeless\u2063 are mentally ill and are not done any favors by being\u200c left out on the streets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople who simply can\u2019t look after\u200d themselves should be institutionalized,\u201d Guze said.<\/p>\n<h3>An Assault on the Regulatory State<\/h3>\n<p>Trump has sketched out plans to roll back regulations put in place by the Biden administration and previous presidents. Most\u2062 prominently, in a bid for the support of auto workers, many of whom are concentrated in the 2020 swing state of Michigan, he has pledged a wholesale reversal of Biden\u2019s emissions rules and fuel efficiency standards for vehicles, as well as the elimination of subsidies for electric vehicles implemented in the Democratic Inflation Reduction Act. \u200dHe\u2019s argued \u200bthat Biden\u2019s push for EVs will\u2063 kill the auto industry.<\/p>\n<p>More generally, he\u200d would implement rules limiting federal regulation, for example by restoring his former executive\u2062 order that required\u2062 that for every single new rule\u2064 or regulation, two \u2064old regulations now on the books must\u200b be eliminated.<\/p>\n<p>Even more generally, though, Trump\u2019s agenda calls for a major revamp of the bureaucracy and civil service\u2062 to diminish the power of career federal employees and increase\u2064 the power of the president.<\/p>\n<p>Agencies established by Congress to have independence from the White House in their \u200coperations, such as the Federal Trade Commission, the\u2063 Federal Communications Commission, and the\u2063 Securities and Exchange Commission, would be brought back under presidential authority, giving Trump far more direct influence over the economy.<\/p>\n<p>Congress is not likely to go along with that plan or with\u2063 many of Trump\u2019s other proposals for overhauling the administrative state, such as moving many more agencies outside of \u2062Washington, D.C., or creating \u201cFreedom Cities\u201d on federal land that\u2064 are not subject\u2063 to\u200c many existing federal rules.<\/p>\n<p>But \u2062there is much he could do on his own.<\/p>\n<p>Most notably, perhaps, he could reissue an\u2063 executive order he\u200d put out in 2020 giving the president greater authority to fire bureaucrats. The order would reassign tens of thousands of civil\u200c servants who have some influence over policy as \u201cSchedule F\u201d \u200demployees, \u200dremoving some of their employment protections.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has touted the idea as an effort to \u201cdismantle the deep state,\u201d \u2062a way to strike back at the government employees that he \u2063blames for undermining his presidency and for preventing his reelection.<\/p>\n<h3>Culture War: Education and Gender<\/h3>\n<p>Two of Trump\u2019s more filled-out platform plans relate to \u200cthe\u200c areas that have seen Republicans gain an advantage in the culture wars in recent years: education and gender ideology.<\/p>\n<p>Some conservatives credit the issues of education, and particularly parental rights in education, for propelling Republican Glenn Youngkin to victory \u200cin Virginia in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>In the education domain, Trump is seeking to cut federal funding from schools that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/parents-should-oppose-critical-race-theory-to-save-our-kids-from-left-wing-indoctrination-ag-paxton\/\" title=\"Parents Should Oppose Critical Race Theory to \u2018Save Our Kids\u2019 from Left-Wing Indoctrination: AG Paxton\">teach critical race theory<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-unveils-law-and-order-plan\/\" title=\"Trump Unveils Law and Order Plan\">open civil rights investigations<\/a>\u2062 into school districts \u201cengaged in race-based discrimination, including \u2063discrimination \u2064against Asian Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The former \u2064president also wants to abolish tenure\u200b for\u2064 teachers up to the 12th\u2064 grade and drastically cut the number of school administrators. He would also adopt a parental \u201cbill of rights,\u201d similar to legislation passed by the current House GOP majority, that would include mandating that \u2062schools post course materials online for parents \u2062to review. \u2064That \u200cis a policy advocated \u2064by Christopher Rufo, the conservative activist who\u200b has risen to \u2062prominence in recent years in part by attacking liberal \u2062influence over education.\u2063 Democrats have pushed back against such measures, claiming they put gay and transgender students at \u200crisk.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has also fully embraced\u200b the latest in conservative \u2064activism on issues relating to \u2063transgender rights and gender ideology.<\/p>\n<p>In February, he put out \u200ba plan to stop \u201cleft-wing\u2062 gender insanity.\u201d Not only would he aim to prevent medical\u2064 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trumpism-2-0-inside-the-former-presidents-plans-for-a-second-term\/\" title=\"Trump's Second Term: Unveiling Trumpism 2.0\">surgical gender\u200d transition-related procedures<\/a>\u2064 for minors, \u2063but he would sign an executive order telling agencies \u200bto\u200b cease promoting the concept of gender transitions \u2064\u201cat any age.\u201d He would also launch DOJ investigations into pharmaceutical \u200bcompanies and hospitals to determine if they have misled\u2062 patients regarding gender transitions. Also, he would ask Congress to define male and female, at birth, as the only two genders.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, Trump \u200bdisapproved of Republicans in North Carolina for enacting a law requiring that people in government buildings may only use bathrooms that correspond with the sex on their birth certificate. He said Caitlyn Jenner, the Olympian who is biologically male but then had recently\u200b begun identifying\u200b as a woman, would be\u2064 welcome to use any bathroom in Trump Tower.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump&#8217;s iconic 2016 slogan, &#8220;Build the Wall,&#8221; continues to shape the early stages of the 2024 campaign. Amidst legal battles and his strong influence on rivals, the former president has quietly introduced numerous impactful policy ideas, often overlooked amidst the noise and commotion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2030166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2030165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2030165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2030166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2030165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2030165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2030165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}