Fair enough. I'm just saying that in critiquing elected American officials, you pretty much have to take their words and attitude out of the equation, because they are trying to use strong emotional appeals to communicate to donors and voters. They are not trying to communicate to you or me.
I look at their actions and little else.
Also, under the Trump administration, every project starts with an outrageous claim of some future action that they don't actually have the political capital to pull off. It's part of Trump's "Art of the Deal". But nearly all of their final actions are in line with typical moderate Republican positions (or center-right Democrat positions) from years past.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
