So last week, Donald Trump's former handpicked Attorney General Bill Barr, the guy that Trump
picked to get him out of the whole Mueller investigation mess. And Barr did a good job
of that for him. But Bill Barr came out during a speech and talked about the fact that, well,
Donald Trump simply didn't deliver any victories to the Republican party that any other Republican
president wouldn't have done. Basically, he got you tax breaks, he killed some regulations,
and literally any other Republican would've done that. So why the hell are you guys still
flocking to Donald Trump when he didn't do anything for you? So on Monday yesterday,
the conservative editorial board for the Wall Street Journal, a Rupert Murdoch own newspaper,
came out and not only doubled down on Bill Barr's comments, but actually expanded upon
them in a way that I think is absolutely brilliant. So let me read you a little bit of an excerpt
from this Wall Street Journal editorial board.
Again, conservative paper, conservative editorial board. And this is what they had to say about
Donald Trump. The rebuttal from the Trump establishment will be to cite his first term,
but that record supports Mr. Barr's point. We also agree with many of Mr. Trump's policies
and we backed them during his presidency. But his most important policy victories were
conventional G O P priorities delivered by people he now denounces as rhinos. The record
on Mr. Trump's signature ideas isn't as successful. He failed to build the border wall and even
with a G O P majority in Congress, his first two years, he never passed an immigration
bill that reformed the quote, credible fear standard of persecution from migrants seeking
asylum in the US. Mr. Trump's trade agenda also achieved little other than higher calls
for Americans. China's behavior hasn't improved while the US is out of the successor deal
to the Trans-Pacific Partnership that Mr.
Trump walked away from. That was actually a good thing, by the way, that he walked away
from that, a fuller account of Mr. Trump's presidency. He can wait for other days. But
Mr. Barr's warning is one that g o p voters deserve to hear Democrats. And most of the
media want Mr. Trump to be the G O P nominee because they believe he's the easiest candidate
to defeat. Republican voters have to decide if they wanna let Democrats make their nominating
choice for them while ignoring Mr. Barr's warning about the policy risks of a second
Trump term. Now, the reason I love this so much is because that is exactly what I've
been saying for quite some time. Now, when you talk to a Trump supporter, ask them what
he did that they love so much, like why do you want to put him back in office?
What did he do for you? For you personally? How was your life better under Trump than
it has been under Biden? What significant victories did Donald Trump secure that made
your life better? They may try to dance around the issue, come up with some bs. He built
the wall. No he didn't. He built a couple portions of the wall that are now rusting
to the point where they're literally crumbling If you touch them, that's shoddy work. That
wall should have lasted, you know, a couple decades before it started rusting out. But
you know, you do things on the cheap as Donald Trump likes to do, and you get what you pay
for. But what I'm saying is every single point that any Republican brings up, any average
Republican voter brings up can be easily refuted. Oh, he got China to start acting. No, he didn't.
No, just stop you right there because no, he didn't.
He increased prices for American consumers who you thinks paying those tariffs. You idiots.
It's us when we buy the things. Yeah, but he also, he took us, uh, he got American jobs
back. No he didn't. Most of those deals, he worked out with companies to bring jobs back
to the United States. In fact, actually not most all of them, they never materialized.
The few companies that did announce under Trump we're gonna build new factories in America
and bring 10,000 jobs. They actually only brought a couple hundred jobs. You're the
carrier. Uh, air conditioner plant is a great example of that. Foxconn and Wisconsin is
a great example of that. It was all a farce. Donald Trump has no real accomplishments after
four years in office. Two of which he had Republican majorities in the House and Senate.
He still couldn't do anything other than what any other Republican would've done.
Which of course is cut regulations and cut taxes for the wealthy elite because deep down,
no matter what they say, no matter what they try to do, those two things, deregulation
and tax cuts are the only things that Republicans on the national level actually care about
doing because of course, that's the only thing their donors care about. Another Trump term,
we would probably see much, much worse. But for those average Republican voters out there,
your life would not get better at all. Trump's first term proved that your situation didn't
improve. And that is the conversation we have to have with these Republicans. And I know
it's tough. I know it's difficult to make these folks think about it, but they have
to look introspectively, right? Right. They have to remember those four years. They can
look through their pay stubs and all of that and then they can answer the question truthfully,
if they have the courage to do it. Are you better off before, during, or after Trump?
And the truth is, from most of those people, from most of us in this country, nothing actually
changed. It sure as hell didn't get any better. That's what we need to remind these conservative
Voters who are clamoring for Trump. Again, he did nothing for you. He'll do nothing for
you if he gets back in office. Cuz the only thing that man cares about is making money
for himself and of course punishing his enemies. And that is the only thing we can expect if
Trump makes it back to the White House.