Oddball
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You never heard of Scoop Jackson or Daniel Patrick Moynahan?....wow...Suffice to say that Trump is a 1980s democrat, which tells you how far left the Democrat Party has lurched in order to decry Trump as a "right wing extremist".Never heard of them.
His "wrong on the border" policy had illegal entries down to a trickle.....Having seen the folly of being a free trade absolutist, I'm not as convinced as you that his China trade policy was entirely wrong.....Otherwise, that's pretty much on the mark.But Trump's wrong on how to solve the border issue. He's wrong on spending, debt and the economy. He's wrong on how to reverse the trade deficit with China. He's wrong on abortion. He's wrong on most of his appointments and people he endorses. (Haley, McCarthy, Ronna & Graham).
The same can be said for the Bushes...Remember that Overton window.Call me a conspiracy theorist or what ever. But when I look at Trump, I see a life long democrat who's pretending to be a Republican. There's simply no other way to legitimately explain his actual record.
The other way to do that is reverse the policies and nullify the mandates that have made those things more expensive....He has a fair track record of doing so.Obviously not everything Trump did was left of center. Even Vegas lets some people win. But those big fancy casino's didn't come from losing money. Meaning if Trump was 100% left leaning, and talked like it, he wouldn't be the GOP's nominee. (At least I don't think he would).
But then again, some of his latest lying promises, are extremely left leaning. He said he was going to get 10 new cities built. The homes were going to be cheaper. Vehicles were going to be cheaper. The only way to do that is for the government to subsidize them. Remember the Obama phones? Are we going to have Trump homes and cars?
Is Trump Goldwater, Perot, Paul, or even Buchanan; fuck no!....But he has assumed their mantle, for better or worse....Rather than kvetching about the imperfect vessel, how about infiltrating the movement with better people at its helm?