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Trump keeps his focus on the sideshows
President Donald Trump was expected to spend the fall pushing his ambitious tax reform agenda and helping
devastated regions in Texas, Florida and Puerto Rico recover from hurricanes
Instead over a period of three weeks Trump has hammered the NFL into submission over the national anthem protests
Repeatedly attacked the fake news media and now reopened a fight over his and his predecessors
handling of gold star families
But these seeming distractions are the president's substance and a legislative agenda his
Predecessors have approached with a singular focus is for him largely a diversion
Since his inauguration in January Trump's sideshows have dominated the news coverage of his presidency with his fellow
Republicans often left struggling to
understand why he insists on stoking major cultural battles rather than working to advance a traditional legislative agenda
It's perhaps the fundamental misunderstanding
Of the Trump presidency and helps explain the yawning chasm between the President and official, Washington
His issues are a series of episodes where he has a fight with some person who doesn't want
America to be great like the NFL or Colin Kaepernick
And he wins said Bill Kristol editor-at-large for the Weekly Standard Oil
Congressional Republicans have committed to repealing
Obamacare passing tax reform and moving an infrastructure bill Trump has staked his presidency on identity and
culture hence his Twitter rebukes of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
For his failure to bring the GOP s health care bill over the finish line. I'm not
Going to blame myself. I'll be honest Trump said earlier this week in the Cabinet Room
If Trump is an inconsistent warrior on health care
he has flip-flopped several times over the last few days on the
Administration's position on the cost-sharing reduction the federal government has doled out to insurance companies under the Affordable Care Act
For example he has been remarkably steady on this sort of cultural issues that animate his base
Indeed the president has mounted the sort of disciplined public communications campaigns on issues many have labeled
Distractions the sort that his predecessors have devoted to legislative initiatives
His brute-force campaign against the NFL whose players he has insisted for weeks should be forced to stand for the national anthem
ended in victory on Wednesday when NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell told reporters
everyone should stand for the national anthem
That was not enough for the president who took to Twitter hours later writing too much. Talk not enough action
stand for the national anthem that
helps to explain why polls suggest the truck base is satisfied with his presidency or
At least that he is meeting their expectations
55% of voters told Quinn the pack pollsters in August that he is performing as expected
including
63% of the non college educated white voters who comprise the core of the president's face
From the beginning Trump has staked his political career on cultural competence not on policy competence
according to Amy Walter senior editor of the cook Political Report
I think what he does more than anyone is keeps coming back to the cultural issues as a way to keep reminding voters
Why they supported him in the first place?
Like his dispute with the NFL his dust-up with gold star families has now ignited a national
Conflagration and is being widely condemned for drawing
Attention away from his party's attempt to get a tax reform bill through Congress and to stabilize
Obamacare insurance markets The Washington Post
Reported on Wednesday that the president promised the father of a fallen service member 20 five
Thousand dollars and said his staff would establish an online fundraiser for the family
But that there was no follow-through on either pledge prompting a swift rebuttal from the White House press office
Which claimed a check had been?
But Trump's impromptu remark during a Monday press conference that he made more phone calls to the families of fallen soldiers
than did President Obama
I was told that he didn't often
Trump said tapped into broader notion held by part of the Trump base that the former president was less than fully patriotic
defense secretary James
Madison's that Obama hadn't done enough to honor the sacrifice of gold star families and
embarked on a road trip to pay his respects to Gold Star Mothers after he retired from the Marine Corps in
2013 it's unclear whether mattis relayed his sentiments to the president and a spokeswoman for the Department of the defense
declined to comment
the historian Walter Russell Mead traced this impulse to the legacy of President Andrew Jackson the Jacksonian
Legacy Meade wrote in foreign affairs is defined by identity culture and patriotism
Many Jacksonians came to believe that the American establishment was no longer reliably patriotic with
Patriotism defined as an instinctive loyalty to the well-being and values of jacksonian america
And they were not wholly wrong by their lights many Americans with
Cosmopolitan sympathies see their main ethical imperative as working for the betterment of humanity in general
Trump on Jackson's portrait in the Oval Office in January a move instigated by former White House chief
Strategist Steve Benin after he read Meade's piece according to sources familiar with bannon's thinking
Fights about the mainstream media the national anthem and the treatment of gold star families are cultural
controversies which sometimes but not always
intersects with the Republican Party's Policy Priorities
Say on immigration or the desertification of the Iran deal?
But Trump is always likely to consider those goals a distraction from his larger cultural agenda
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