Trump's Art of the Deal Is Back, Baby

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

76% : Recalling the July 13 attempt on his life that left another man dead and two others wounded, Trump said, "I am very proud to say that over the past few days, we've raised $6.3 million for the families...including from a friend of mine just called up...$1 million, from Dan Newlin.
67% : "Indeed, Trump is taking America beyond the Coolidgean Republican dictum, "The business of America is business."
66% : Trump was acting like an economic development czar -- and people loved it.
65% : "Trump has never feared success, and he has grabbed for every advantage.
64% : In that same go-get-'em spirit, on July 27, Trump spoke in Nashville to a Bitcoin convention.
61% : Yet Trump is surely the boldest, even the brazenest, at mixing private wealth and public purposes.
61% : Channeling libertarian sci-fi legend Robert Heinlein, Trump asked, "How long would it take government to come up with that one?"Then the elder mogul added, "We have to make life good for our smart people, and he's as smart as you get."
55% : "So no need to wait for insurance, or Social Security, which is, in Trumpian terms, penny-ante, anyway.
55% : Trump has always intertwined business and politics, even international politics.
55% : But then, a year later, Trump signed the Abraham Accords.
55% : On the campaign stump, Trump says, "We will demolish the deep state."
54% : (For that huge-selling book, ghostwriter Tony Schwartz was the "with," and yet there's no doubt that we're hearing, here, the true voice of Trump.)
53% : As Trump wrote back in 1987, "The final key to the way I promote is bravado....
53% : Now Trump is eager to work his self-identified magic on Gaza.
53% : So on domestic policy, too, Trump will be looking for new kinds of deals, beyond the metes and bounds of the presidency and precedent.
53% : Trump himself already knows his answer.
52% : Trump is bringing the same bottom-line mindset to Ukraine.
50% : Even more remarkably, Trump dispatched his businessman son-in-law, Jared Kushner, to redefine the Middle East, from geopolitical trap to giant real estate transaction.
50% : Yet intriguingly, even as he enjoys the support of Miriam Adelson, Trump seems focused on a quick deal, as opposed to some sort of longer-term comprehensive framework.
47% : Just on July 19, in the wake of the attempt on his life, Trump said, "I appreciate President Zelenskyy for reaching out because I, as your next President of the United States, will bring peace to the world and end the war that has cost so many lives and devastated countless innocent families."No invocation of right and wrong, no discussion of international law, no declaration about the free world.
46% : Heedless of economic cant, the can-do Trump, even before being inaugurated, traveled to Indiana in December 2016 to personally bargain with Carrier to keep its factory in Indiana.
45% : Here at The American Conservative, this author has applied, to Trump, the term "popularist.
45% : But even if Trump loses, the overall trend toward tech-tycoonery is unstoppable -- these are thin times for Marxists, Luddite de-growthers, and, most recently, diversitarians.
44% : Trump insists Gaza never would have erupted if he had remained in office.
43% : No wonder Trump likes him.
42% : Trump is not the first public official, nor even the first president, to highlight social media campaigns, including fundraising appeals.
42% : Nobody thinks of Trump as a techie, but he is demonstrably open to new tech ideas, especially if there's many to be made.
41% : Yet Trump is different: His unique background aside, probably no president has had a more adversarial relationship with the federal government.
40% : Meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu on July 25 at his privatized State Department, Mar-a-Lago, Trump warned that under the current administration, the combat could escalate into "World War Three."
40% : Sen. Lindsey Graham, that Palmetto State menschenkenner, said of Trump in 2019, "The one thing about the president that I hope senators understand is he listens, he wants to be successful and he is not an ideologue."
40% : "Whatever's in a name, Trump has dramatically reshaped the Republican Party's platform position on abortion, IVF, gay marriage, and TikTok.
36% : From an entrepreneur, there's nothing remarkable about this statement; the difference with Trump is that he took his always-be-closing style to the White House.
34% : Before Trump, presidents generally invoked macroeconomic theory (free trade) to hide from microeconomic consequences (workers losing their jobs).
26% : Netanyahu might not like it, but Trump is no fan of him, and most Israelis, and American Zionists, would be quietly relieved to see the fighting stopped.
26% : Yet Trump is hardly moving to the mushy middle.
25% : Back in the 1980s, at the dawn of his public career, Trump bought full-page newspaper ads criticizing American foreign policy and, separately, calling for the death penalty.
24% : And that was before the Secret Service debacle in Butler, PA, which has led some prominent Trump allies to suspect that the "regime" wants Trump dead.
17% : If Trump wins, Gensler will be gone (as chair).

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