Ben Shapiro for president?
President Donald Trump will compete against a long tier of 2020 candidates (not the year, but the number of presidential hopefuls). Outside of resignation or impeachment, Trump will most likely be the GOP nominee.
With less than two years until the presidential election, some websites are looking at the favorites.
According to BetOnline, Trump’s odds of winning are listed a 7-4, beating numerous Democratic hopefuls. There are plenty of names making the list, from former Vice President Joe Biden to Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA). But there is one name that is turning heads: Ben Shapiro.
The Editor-in-Chief of The Daily Wire has odds of 40-1 to win the White House.
It would be great to see Shapiro in the debates when discussing a myriad of domestic and economic issues (not so much on foreign policy). Would he be an effective president?
From the horse’s mouth:
A lot fewer executive orders, I’m not a fan of executive orders … I think that an attempt to restructure entitlements would be very high on the priority list; if you’re going to do it, do it early in your presidency, because you’re going to feel blowback for doing it, and if we don’t fix the entitlement problem, the government’s basically done. 80% of our budget is entitlements, essentially.
I would have a basic rule, and the basic rule would be: I will not sign any bill that is longer than three pages and not in basic language. I want the American people to understand what it is that people are voting for and what they are signing. I would also fire half of the executive branch immediately. I would disband not just three departments, but a lot of departments.
I think that government by executive fiat is gross; I don’t think that that’s what the presidency was designed to do, and I would try to take structural measures to undermine the power of the federal government so that the person who came after me could not revamp it. I would devolve a lot of power to the states; I would devolve a lot of power to the localities … I would disband the EPA; I would disband the Department of Education; I would disband the Department of Energy. If Congress wants to pass laws along those lines, Congress can damn well pass laws along those lines, but the idea that a bunch of unelected bureaucrats are super-giant experts in all this stuff and they get to make all the regulations and rules without ever having to be exposed to the public eye, I think that’s really gross. …
The president really has two jobs under the Constitution: to enforce the laws and to make sure we have national security. Those were really his two big jobs under the Constitution, and those would be the two that I take seriously. I would be, maybe, the first president in history trying to undermine the power of the executive branch on behalf of the legislature and simultaneously strengthen the military on behalf of national security.
Not bad.
Run, Ben, run!
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