{"id":90039,"date":"2025-12-01T05:34:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T11:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=90039"},"modified":"2025-12-01T05:34:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T11:34:24","slug":"focus-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=90039","title":{"rendered":"Focus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n

Among Reagan’s greatest strengths was a pretty maniacal sense of focus on what mattered. \u00a0Peabrains like Matt Walsh mutter “what did Reagan ever do for the pro-life movement”, ignorant that Reagan was dealing with a Democrat House for his first six years in office; he only had so much political capital, and he spent what he had (beyond the bully pulpit) on his two big priorities; rebuilding the economy and destroying Communism. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

With that in mind Joe Doakes, once of Como Park, emails:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Trump has too many irons in the fire, he needs to focus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Ukraine is a lost cause, stop trying to be peacemaker, let Russia win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hamas is a lost cause, stop trying to be peacemaker, let Israel win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Everything Trump did by executive order, his successor can undo by executive order.  He needs to start kicking Congress to pass legislation to codify his changes.  He’s got maybe one year before they start running for re-election and then nothing will get done. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Focus. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joe Doakes<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n\n\n

I don’t disagree (on most of it, anyway). \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

But let’s be honest – Trump does most of. his own unfocusing. \u00a0<\/p>\n

I’ve been generally more impressed with him this term – fewer pointless squabbles with staff, more focus on getting things done – but he provides plenty of his own distractions.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Trump needs it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[367],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90040,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90039\/revisions\/90040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}