My preferred candidate for the moment is Nikki Haley based on her foreign policy statements alone. She alone among the Republican field seems to understand the stakes in the Russia/Ukraine conflict and the ramifications of the vicious Hamas attack on Israel.
Economic policy should be fairly straight forward since we already know from the Trump presidency what works.
With a Republican Senate and Congress, it should be a simple matter of restoring the Trump tax rates. Since most of the damage to energy production under this president has been through edict, a President Haley should be able to revoke those targeting oil and gas production fairly quickly.
Our new President should support a restoration of the Trump economic policy and of the Trump energy policy.
So there it is:
1.) Haley Foreign Policy
2.) Trump Economic Policy
3.) Trump Energy Policy
All administered by a President Haley
Knowing that Haley is solid on foreign policy, I am waiting to hear her economic proposals, but since she seems to understand the inflation issue, I am optimistic that she understands that sending dollars overseas to buy crude oil is the dumbest thing we can do as a nation. Reversing the flow of dollars-for-crude-oil will almost instantly impact the rate of price inflation.
Additionally, there is a lot of economic hubris surrounding our rush to solve the chimeric issue of Climate Change, but she seems brighter than the other candidates, so I suspect she understands what needs to be done. Eliminating all or most of the various climate regulations (CAFE Standards for example) will go a long way.
Taking all of this together, we have a package for reversing the decline of Western Civilization. Nikki Haley may be the only candidate in either party capable of pulling this off.
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