[National Review] In traditional political terms, there is always an alternate agenda to an incumbent president’s that reasonable voters can debate.
In Trump’s case, two massive annual budget deficits ‐ coming on top of the previous two administrations that doubled the national debt ‐ seem fair game.
Yet we hear little about such financial profligacy.
Not a word comes from Trump’s critics about the need for Social Security or Medicare reform to ensure the long-term viability of each ‐ other than the Democrats’ promises to extend such financially shaky programs to millions of new clients well beyond the current retiring Baby Boomer cohorts who are already taxing the limits of the system.
Several other examples are examined, in typical VDH fashion.
 To counter every signature Trump issue, there is almost no rational alternative advanced. That void helps explain the bizarre, three-year litany of dreaming of impeachment, the emoluments clause, the Logan Act, the 25th Amendment, the Mueller special-counsel investigation, Stormy Daniels and Michael Avenatti, Trump’s tax returns, White Supremacy!, Recession! ‐ and Lord knows what next.
The progressive party, many past presidents, the media, and Hollywood didn't need to be schooled by Donald Trump on the arts of crudity, unprofessionalism, and unethical behavior.
So what we need are not more pathetic abort-the-Trump-presidency melodramas, or ethical sermons from the abjectly unethical, or "Trump is the worst" this or that from historically ignorant pundits.
Don't forget Hitler.
Instead of vague socialist bombast and promises, where is the actual detailed progressive version of the Contract with America, so voters can read it, digest it, and then decide whether it is superior or inferior to the status quo since 2017? Let us see two antithetical visions of America's future, and let the voters decide.
Even the deplorables?
For those who insist that "character matters" more than policy, then, let us compare the Trump behavior in the White House since 2017 with JFK's, Lyndon Johnson's, and Bill Clinton's. Let's compare his supposed efforts to "obstruct" justice with Obama's actual record of politicizing federal justice, intelligence, tax, and investigatory agencies.
So far, all that is something that apparently no presidential candidate wishes to do. 
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