Donald Trump Has Been The Most Illuminating President In Decades
I have worked in and around Republican politics in Washington for nearly 15 years observing Republicans of all stripes. Trump is different. What is most notable, however, is how he is different, and what he accomplished because of it.
To put it frankly, Trump dared to meaningfully go where nearly every Republican politician in my lifetime has feared to tread: culture. For instance, Trump, with his typical rhetorical flourish, refers to his administration as the most pro-life administration in history. He s not too far off the mark.
After years of empty rhetoric from Republican politicians, Trump shepherded more substantive gains for the pro-life movement than nearly every president before him and certainly every Congress: ending federal funding for new medical research using fetal tissue from aborted babies; giving states the ability to exclude abortion providers from their federally supported Medicaid programs; and prohibiting federal family planning dollars from flowing to organizations that perform, promote, or refer for abortion, a move that resulted in Planned Parenthood the nation s largest abortion provider rejecting the funds altogether.
There must be some hard-core Catholics strategically placed in Trump’s administration. E.g., the proclamation on the 800th (?) anniversary of Thomas Becket’s death. Extraordinary. And of course there’s ACB. But once we get a cradle Catholic back in the WH, we’ll go straight back to whatever you choose to call our current situation.