As a Los Angeles County conservative, I think that Trump's election and first two weeks of his Presidency has been the greatest thing to happen to California and the country in 36 years.
Finally, we have a strong leader who is not ashamed to be an American. He wants to fight for our citizens. He wants to Make America Great Again. He's run huge businesses, sometimes into the ground, but he's also bounced back and risen up to higher heights, much like the skyscrapers in Manhattan, New York.
He has more than impressed me, and he has assuaged every fear and concern so far about his commitment to this country, our Constitution, and his solemn promises to put Americans first and uphold the rule of law.
He is already enacting policies and making decisions that are great for business. He has also taken clear aim at Obamacare. He has assembled a vast network of incredible executive nominees. In welcome and yet unprecedented fashion, he has pushed aside a corrupt and frustrating liberal media cult–and has pulverized them for their stultifying bias.
Of course, blue states for the most part got bluer in 2016, signaled their determination to double-down on their regressive left-wing stupidity. Yet even deep blue Los Angeles County, where I had a Republican representing me for the first time in over 22 years, Republicans and conservatives in general have much to be happy about.
For that reason alone, LA Weekly's Hillel Aron announced that certain doom will befall the City of Angels following Trump's ascension to DC Paradise.
Aron issued his dour reflections about President Trump in the December 22. 2016 edition of the county alternative rag, which has for the last five years provided excellent reporting and commentary on the corrupt and unaccountable education scene in the Los Angeles Unified School District.
First, he deemed that Trump is the worst thing that could happen to Los Angeles:
is an unmitigated disaster for Los Angeles.
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city with fear and uncertainty. And in addition to his call for mass
deportations, Trump has threatened to starve all so-called "sanctuary
cities" — places that refuse to assist the federal government in its
deportation efforts — of federal funding. If Trump were to follow through on
that threat, Los Angeles stands to lose billions of dollars.
your buzz), Trump also could make the legalization of recreational marijuana
more difficult by continuing to criminalize it on the federal level. His pick
for U.S. Attorney General, Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, bodes poorly for
legal weed. ("If Mr. Sessions were to be confirmed, many supporters of
legalization worry that his past remarks about marijuana could portend a
crackdown," according to The New York Times .)
in 2016, he also imperils one of the best things to happen to the city this
year (recreational weed) and one of the best things about the city, period (its
spirit of inclusion).