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What makes a "great" political leader?

Moderate Right said:
Ummmmmmmmmmm. He has been undoing Obama all year long. Starting with the Supreme Court and moving to scores of EO's. Now it's the tax plan and even Democrats have been saying that the tax plan will destroy Obamacare. That's not even talking about the economic growth rate doubling and the Daca thing. Not too bad for just one year!
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The thing about EO's, they can be reversed pretty quickly. You have an unpopular tax plan and Trump's EO's. The only thing that will stick is the judge appointees.
 
<alt>doxygen said:
Heller decided that the 2nd Amendment provides an individual right to bear arms, and I support that. That happened long before Trump declared he was running. I do think many voted for Trump over the SCOTUS, but probably more voting against abortion rights and gay rights than anything else. Evangelical types seem unconcerned about anything but policing other people's sex and reproductive lives.
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You give the FAR right way too much credit. They are but a small segment of society and do not elect any president. Independents and moderates on both sides elect the president. However, the election was much about the second amendment and the SC vacancy and it was also about political correctness run amok. Voters did not want the court leaning left instead of leaning right and they did not want the liberal left's gun control legislation. The proof is gun sales skyrocketing before the election and gun sales plummeting after Trump was elected president. If there was no SC vacancy, Hillary may very well have won.
 
iliveonramen said:
Accounting for life expectancy by pushing out the age is one thing. Paul Ryans past reforms including reducing compensation by hooking to an index that increased slower than inflation and privatizing SS and Medicare for younger voters.

Also, how brave of Republicans to say that the age demographics that vote heavily Republican won't be impacted by their ****ty policies. Republicans and their voters are so brave. What will be telling is if younger voters agree to actually allow two different systems like that to exist. My vote would be no.
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The privatization thing was just an option. It was not going to be mandatory. He said that repeatedly but the left leaning medias for biased reasons did not report it that way.
 
iliveonramen said:
The thing about EO's, they can be reversed pretty quickly. You have an unpopular tax plan and Trump's EO's. The only thing that will stick is the judge appointees.
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We're still trying to clear out all of the liberal judge appointees.
 
dobieg said:
Many of us Trumpsters can't stand the GOP. It's just that the Left is so far off in La La Land, they aren't an alternative.
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Leftist ideology is NEVER an alternative. I'm fed up with the GOPe. They're only slightly better than the kook left. :)
 
Moderate Right said:
The privatization thing was just an option. It was not going to be mandatory. He said that repeatedly but the left leaning medias for biased reasons did not report it that way.
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Yeah...that's a great option...a Social Security that diminishes in value against inflation due to the index used in his plan or put away money in a private account. That's not much of a choice.
 
iliveonramen said:
Yeah...that's a great option...a Social Security that diminishes in value against inflation due to the index used in his plan or put away money in a private account. That's not much of a choice.
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Like I said, it was an option only for those who wanted to do it.
 
NonConformer said:
What makes a "great" political leader? The following list of things can apply to any elected official, at any level; but of course the higher the office, then the more important it is to do these things.

First: have a consistent ideology. Make it clear where you stand on the issues. There should be some sort of unifying thread amongst all your positions. And stand your ground! Nobody respects a politician who changes his/her mind with the frequency with which they change their socks.

Secondly: be a good salesman. Be forever ready, willing, and able to back up your positions with logic, persuasion, and facts, not insults and accusations.

Next: be good at working with people. Be the kind of person somebody would want as a friend. Kill them with kindness. Be a diplomat, not a control-freak or a bully.

Next: you must actually get things done. Promises don't count!

And finally: be an inspiration. Be the kind of person that people look up to. Make your electorate proud to point to you as their representative.

SO: Does the current inhabitant of the White House qualify as a "great" political leader?
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A great political leaders must have vision. Without perspective how can he or she lead? Where would we go? They must also be a great unifier. This is more important now than ever. We getting into this habbit of leading only for the base. The majority should rule and it's not. There's more than just 32% of the population. They should unite us rather than divide us.

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