{"id":18867,"date":"2017-01-05T13:14:03","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T18:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=18867"},"modified":"2017-01-05T13:19:56","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T18:19:56","slug":"could-trump-become-a-successful-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=18867","title":{"rendered":"Could Trump become a successful President?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My &#8220;Buddy&#8221; recently sent me <a href=\"http:\/\/michaelmoore.com\/trumpwillwin\/\">a critique<\/a> of Hillary Clinton and a prediction of her failure to beat Trump written by a nemisis of the Republican Party &#8211; Michael Moore. I thought it prescient and replied to my Buddy in this way:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An excellent prediction that was very much aligned to my way of thinking.  And I don&#8217;t rule out the possibility that Trump may luck into being a successful President. But I will feel compelled to be one of his many tiny nettlesome critics. I hate it when some Napoleon takes the crown from the Pope to put it on his own head especially when the Napoleon is like a spoiled fourth grader.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Today my Buddy sent me a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/5-things-ive-learned-from-charlie-munger-2017-01-04\">link to this page<\/a> about Berkshire Hathaway&#8217;s famous invester Charlie Munger. I found it reassuring because I mostly agreed with his investing strategy but then I noticed a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/3-ways-charlie-munger-and-donald-trump-think-alike-2016-11-18\">the three things Munger and Trump agree about<\/a>. To my great surprise I mostly agreed with them too &#8211; 1. the dangers of untrammeled free trade, 2. the termination of the Glass Steagall Act, and 3. the drawbacks of corporate income taxes. <\/p>\n<p>It would be amazing <em>but not unprecedented<\/em> for the embodiment of a spoiled fourth grader to succeed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My &#8220;Buddy&#8221; recently sent me a critique of Hillary Clinton and a prediction of her failure to beat Trump written by a nemisis of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,111,127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-gambling","category-trump-2016"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18867"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18873,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18867\/revisions\/18873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}