Joe Walsh: Trump Needs a Primary Challenge.
'The case for a contender from the right.
Theres a strong case for President Trump to face a Republican primary challenger. I know a thing or two about insurgencies. I entered Congress in 2011 as an insurgent Tea Party Republican. My goals were conservative and clear: restrain executive power and reduce the debt. Barack Obama was president then, and it was easy for us to rail against runaway spending and executive overreach.
Eight years later, Mr. Trump has increased the deficit more than $100 billion year over year its now nearing $1 trillion and we hear not a word of protest from my former Republican colleagues. He abuses the Constitution for his narcissistic trade war. In private, most congressional Republicans oppose the trade war, but they dont say anything publicly. But think about this: Mr. Trumps tariffs are a tax increase on middle-class Americans and are devastating to our farmers. Thats not a smart electoral strategy.
Its one of the many reasons Mr. Trump is ripe for a primary challenger. In fact, it would buck the historical trend if he didnt have one. More often than not, unpopular presidents face primary challengers.
Since leaving Congress in 2013, Ive been the host of my own conservative talk radio show several hours a day, five days a week. The only time a majority of my conservative audience has noticeably broken with the president is when he signed the omnibus spending bill in 2017 that ballooned the deficit. Fiscal responsibility is an issue the American electorate cares about but that our elected officials disregard from the top down including the Tea Party in the Trump era.
Fiscal matters are only part of it. At the most basic level, Mr. Trump is unfit for office. His lies are so numerous from his absurd claim that tariffs are paid for mostly by China, by the way, not by us, to his prevarication about his crowd sizes, he cant be trusted. . .
And despite what his enablers claim, Mr. Trump isnt a conservative. Hes reckless on fiscal issues; hes incompetent on the border; hes clueless on trade; he misunderstands executive power; and he subverts the rule of law.'>>>
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/14/opinion/joe-walsh-trump-primary.html?
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