Trump's 2016 Promises

The way I see it, Trump ran in 2016 on broad promises in four areas.

1. Big infrastructure spending.
2. A trade war that would return millions of manufacturing jobs to the US, as well as getting rid of all trade deals and have new bilateral ones instead.
3. Dynamite new health care that was cheap and great for everyone.
4. Racist and xenophobic immigration policies.

(In fairness, he also said he wouldn't cut Social Secirity or Medicare and he pretty much kept that promise. But I also have no doubt that if he has a second term, those will also be in the chopping block.)

Well, number one simply never happened, and there is no objective way to claim otherwise.

For number two, the short answer is that Trump has pretty much already lost the trade war, if you can call it that. Other than a few photo ops at Carrier, Foxconn, and other plants (which just waited until Trump wasn't looking and sent the jobs to Mexico or somewhere else anyway), the manufacturing sector is worse than when he took office, and the tariffs have just made things more expensive for American consumers. Wisconsin has lost dairy farms at a record pace. The only people who think we are winning the trade war are Trump, Peter Navarro, and all the farmers who got billions in welfare checks. So much winning.

Health care doesn't require much discussion. It's a mess. And it's probably better than 50/50 that SCOTUS will scrap the ACA and leave millions without health coverage and Medicaid. No plan was ever in sight and never will be.

Well lo amd behold, that leaves us with number four! If there is one promise that Trump kept, this is the one. Then he went one better and brought his racism home as well. The one thing that Trump is successful at is racist shit. So if someone says they are voting for Trump because he delivered on his promises, we know which of those promises were important to them.