Perfection is the enemy of Good. Trump isn’t Perfect. But he is Good.
When Trump said he was going to build a wall, he was more conservative than any “conservative”.
Alexander, Corker, Flake, Gardner, Graham, Hatch, Heller, Hoeven, Murkowsky, McCain, Rubio, Burr, Tillis, Portman, McConnell, Thune, Cornyn, Cochran, Isackson, Blunt, Johnson, Toomey, Capito, Rounds, Fischer, Collins, Wicker, Sasse are all Democrats in R jerseys. Cheap Labor Express Republicans.
Not a conservative among them.
Like Trump said the republican politicians are all talk and no results. And that includes the self proclaimed conservatives. Between 1988 & 2017, what exactly have the conservative CAREER politicians achieved?
Crickets!
Far too many conservative mouth pieces are RINOs.
Ann Coulter is that you masquerading as Moe-Patrick? If so take your menopause meds and take a nap.
The difference between Trump and elected conservatives?
Trump is not beholden to campaign donors.
Yuge difference.
As I have said...Trump knew...to get elected conservatives have to Campaign to the Left...then when in office, govern to the Right...opposite of Dems who campaign to Right then Govern to Left.
First and foremost, Donald Trump is not a politician. That itself makes him better suited to fight these battles than anyone else in Washington.
When Trump said he would be in favor of protective tariffs he was more Conservative than any Republican has been for the last 50 years.
It was interesting to see Trump during the primaries and beyond through today expose the GOP as a total fraud, and everyone in it.
There isn’t a single actual conservative official in the GOP.
They are all pretenders, they have achieved nothing, and the party platform is total horseshit.
Almost all “conservatives” in congress are “single-issue representatives”.
That issue is: getting re-elected.
They are convinced that their primary issue (re-election) requires
1) Being moderate and even liberal in legislation to avoid losing votes
2) Doing what donors want to get money to fool voters (since their record doesn’t “win”)
There are also a lot of “conservatives” in congress, media, and other roles in DC who think they know best (they have “democrat ego disorder”). “The proper role of government”, “individual freedom”, and and other ideas that should be the basis for any conservative policy have fallen by the wayside.
If they can find a way to provide health insurance to the entire country for “the minimum” cost, it’s a brilliant idea in their minds - way better than what anyone else has come up with. It doesn’t matter if “the minimum cost” will bankrupt us. Or if that’s not a proper role for government to provide insurance. They figured out how to do something better than ANYONE else and they want to push their idea. And they’ll explain at length how their brilliant idea is actually “conservative” without touching on basics like “the proper role of government”.
Like all bureaucracies they tend toward self preservation over actually getting anything done. The so called Conservative intelligentsia are do nothing academics who self promoted themselves to the position of ultimate arbitrators of what and what is not Conservative. POTUS DJT is a pragmatist and a patriot who just happens to share most of his values with conservative elite who guard the doors of the conservative plantation.
His is pragmatic conservatism.
Theirs is political conservatism.