> but policy-wise he didn't really make any horrible decisions.
I'm not sure if this is permitted by the guidelines. I can prefix perhaps with: I get why a lot of people voted for Trump, and I have sympathy with some of his policies, but I think there _were_ some policy decisions that were judged to be horrible, including by NGOs and internationally. Some examples listed below.
I'm not saying other presidents don't made horrible decisions, but I am saying that there seems to be a tendency to excuse his behaviour by a whataboutism argument, and it's really important to get down in the detail, into the facts, and not let Trump's style of politics trickle down to us all.
While I agree with you on most of those points, abandoning allies of convenience when they are no-longer useful has a long history in US foreign policy, and the Kurds should really have known this might happen given that they were abandoned by Bush 1 in 1991: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_uprisings_in_Iraq
I don't know enough about the other three, but there are many people who disagree with you on the child separation.
We have 10 million illegal immigrants in the US. Previous administrations have been soft on border enforcement, which led to that number constantly increasing, putting regional pressure on wages, lower class jobs, and regional cultural identity.
Trump increased enforcement of existing immigration laws. He wasn't going to put the kids in detainment centers with their parents. Children don't belong in prisons with adults, there would be incredible abuses that occur. Hence separation pending litigation and/or deportation.
"We have 10 million illegal immigrants in the US. Previous administrations have been soft on border enforcement, which led to that number constantly increasing, putting regional pressure on wages, lower class jobs, and regional cultural identity."
There are lots of ways to solve these problems which don't rely on separating children from families. Interesting you feel the government should act in order to ensure stability of regional cultural identity, and that damaging families of these migrants seem to be a reasonable answer to do so.
Also, no law forced this policy of child separation. They could have created family focused detention facilities. They could have done a lot of things. They did child separation to convince people to not come to this country.
It sounds like the cure was worse than the disease. Solve the immigration problem by taking it out on the children. When this was suggested did anybody step up and say this seemed like a bad idea?
I'm not sure if this is permitted by the guidelines. I can prefix perhaps with: I get why a lot of people voted for Trump, and I have sympathy with some of his policies, but I think there _were_ some policy decisions that were judged to be horrible, including by NGOs and internationally. Some examples listed below.
I'm not saying other presidents don't made horrible decisions, but I am saying that there seems to be a tendency to excuse his behaviour by a whataboutism argument, and it's really important to get down in the detail, into the facts, and not let Trump's style of politics trickle down to us all.
Separating children from their parents to deter immigration: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/trump-administration-s-c...
The Travel Ban: https://www.amnesty.org.uk/licence-discriminate-trumps-musli...
Science and medicine cuts: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5468112/
Abandoning the kurds: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/10/28/turkey-syria-t...