Perhaps, the Stock Market is reacting to factors other than Trump.

But in your Orwellian world, Trump gets credit for all good things, and Obama gets no credit for the good things.

The "Trump rally" that has taken the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -0.12%   to the brink of 20,000 resumed this week, driven by favorable seasonal factors, a stronger economy, and optimism about pro-business policies the new Trump Administration might adopt.

But on closer inspection, the rally has been dominated by three sectors--energy, financials, and industrials, each of which has substantially beaten the S&P 500 index SPX, -0.19%  thus far in 2016 and would benefit greatly from tax cuts and regulatory changes under President Donald Trump and a Republican Congress.

Green26: "Don't think many of the posters on this site know much about business."

Speaking for myself only, I co-founded, co-own and co-run my own business consulting firm with my partner, who's also a Democrat, and we're doing pretty good for ourselves. In fact, I'd estimate that about half our clients are Republican or GOP-leaning. Your TL host Jeralyn is also the longtime owner of a widely renowned and very successful law practice.

Plus, the GOP Freedom Caucus has caved and will ask for 50% of the $1 billion Trump infrastructure to be paid for.

TrevorBolder: "I am all for clean air and water. When the EPA starts writing law regarding stock ponds on private property, and emissions emanating from plant life and bovines, time to rein them in a little bit"

But whether we ever actually have it should be entirely voluntary on the part of businesses and corporations, and not mandated by government overreach and overregulation -- right?

It's clownish ideologues like you who once argued the exact same thing about dams and reservoirs located on private property, that government had no business regulating either, or even conducting safety inspections except upon request -- and who's asking? No, we need to trust people to do the right thing on their own, they said, or let the marketplace of ideas determine the right thing to do.

And then this happened. By the subsequent calculations of state investigators, the wall of water was estimated to be 70 feet high and 100 yards wide. The casualty count included a bride and groom on their wedding day, a toddler and a pregnant woman.

Of course, it was then argued that it wasn't the owner's fault. How could it be? After all, it's never the fault of owners and management when things go horribly, catastrophically wrong. Somebody else has to be to blame, like the same state safety inspectors who were time and again over the years refused entry onto private property. Fortunately in this particular case, our judicial system saw it otherwise.

You're as much an expert on the economics of environmental regulation and public safety, as you are on population demographics and communications law. You show up here armed with nothing but GOP talking points, conservative platitudes and right-wing clichés, and then you just spin away like a child's toy top. In that regard, you're like Tucker Carlson on Fox News. You stick resolutely to script while talking past, around and over people, without ever really knowing what you're talking about.