@georgeob1,
It is typical of you to attempt to make out that I've said something I haven't. No mention was made by me of Trump's virtues, nor did I allege that you had referred to such an illusory case (that clown possesses no virtues). I specifically responded to your drivel about his policies.
There are far too many members of Congress who benefit from those who employ illegal immigrants for any meaningful legislation to be passed. It may come as a shock to you, but the constitution grants Congress most of the power in government, and the president very little. Plump can rant and shout, but in the end, only Congress and the courts can decide most issues. Beginning with the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986--a case where the president, horse's ass though he was, worked closely with Congress--good faith efforts have been made to reform and control immigration. All have failed, and mostly because Americans want cheap lettuce and fruit. You have also side-stepped, whenever this comes up, the undeniable fact, repeatedly made by the DEA, that overwhelmingly, drugs come into this country at legal crossing points. While Plump rants and grandstands by pointlessly sending troops to the border, drugs, particularly opioids, enter the country through those border crossing points. All the money squandered on his stunts would have been a great deal more effectively spent hiring more agents for border crossing points, and spending more money on that effort. But the fat boy in the white house has been interested in himself and his reality television show of a presidency.
The way to address trade imbalances is with bi- or multi-lateral negotiations. The effort is not served by narcissistic bombast and unilateral ultimatums. Plump's method is hurting ordinary consumers, but then, Plump and the denizens of gated communities don't suffer, and don't give a rat's ass how the ordinary working stiff is affected by stupid and unnecessary trade wars. The one who has failed to address the "long term corrosive effects" (I could do without the silly, purple prose) if the fat boy in the white house. China is not going to play ball with him, the the European Union and Canada are little interested in his antics. The Pan-Pacific trade partnership is the direction in which Canada is heading, and Mexico is already a part of that trading pact. With some much of the idiot ideology favored by the far right, the effect will be to marginalize American interests, as other nations find ways to do without us.
The highest rates of opioid overdose and deaths are in the northeastern United States. The heroine and fentanyl that come in there is smuggled in through legal crossing points by aircraft. I've pointed this out before, and you, of course, never address inconvenient truths.
Of course, you took the opportunity to blame all ills on the Democratic party, because they are not the lick-spittle sycophants that the majority of Republicans have become. You really do your intelligence and your perceptive abilities a disservice when you praise that fat, puerile, narcissistic clown.
