One thing you can say for Trump is that he’s cooperating in creating a nice contrast to the Democrats. For example, he’s on the wrong side of the student debt issue:

As student debt continues to climb, President Donald Trump on Monday released a budget for 2021 that would slash many of the programs aimed at helping borrowers.

Student loan spending would be cut by $170 billion in Trump’s plan, titled “A Budget for America’s Future.” The reductions include “sensible annual and lifetime loan limits” for graduate students and parents and the end to subsidized loans, in which the government covers the interest for borrowers who are still in school or experiencing economic hardship.

It would also reduce the number of repayment options for borrowers and nix the popular, if challenged, public service loan forgiveness program.

Then there’s the social safety net:

Warnings that Trump has Social Security and Medicare in his crosshairs intensified last month when the president told CNBC in an interview at Davos that he is “going to look” at slashing Medicare and Social Security should he win reelection in 2020.

After 2020 Democrats and others seized upon Trump’s comments as further evidence that his 2016 campaign vow to protect Social Security and Medicare was a lie, the president has since claimed he is attempting to “save” the programs.

“We will not be touching your Social Security or Medicare in Fiscal 2021 Budget,” Trump tweeted Saturday. “Only the Democrats will destroy them by destroying our Country’s greatest ever Economy!”

But, of course, the president’s budget backs up his original statement in Davos.

Just two days after vowing the White House “will not be touching your Social Security or Medicare” in its budget proposal for fiscal year 2021, President Donald Trump on Monday is expected to unveil a $4.8 trillion blueprint that includes hundreds of billions in combined cuts to those programs over the next decade, deep reductions in safety-net spending, and a major increase in Pentagon funding.

Now, it would be wrong to suppose that Democrats or the youth vote are pro-drug dealer, but they’re definitely anti-drug war. They’re definitely moving toward the decriminalization if not outright legalization of marijuana. So, I’m not sure Trump is making the right move with this:

Just days after his Super Bowl ad and State of the Union speech highlighted his support for legislation that makes a modest effort to reduce prison sentences at the federal level, Trump on Monday said the best way to further reduce the quantity of fentanyl in the US is to follow China’s lead.

“States with a very powerful death penalty on drug dealers don’t have a drug problem,” Trump said during a White House event with governors. “I don’t know that our country is ready for that, but if you look throughout the world, the countries with a powerful death penalty — death penalty — with a fair but quick trial, they have very little if any drug problem. That includes China.”

It seems like a toothless effort to sound like he cares about the opioid epidemic, which would be nice if it were true. Of course, it is not true, but he does talk about the issue a lot more than the Democrats do. I’m just not sure he’ll get that much mileage out of his idea to turn America into Rodrigo Duterte’s Philippines.

Whether the idea is to win over old or young voters, Trump seems to be shooting himself in the feet with these moves. I guess we can thank him for that.