Posted on 02/15/2016 3:55:35 AM PST by reaganaut1
Saturday’s GOP debate finally clarified the Donald Trump phenomenon. After months of dominating the polls and millions of words of analysis, the grueling slog of the primary race is finally bringing the facts into sharp relief. Donald Trump isn’t a revolutionary. He’s not a conservative. He’s not even a populist. He’s a Democrat.
In the Greenville, S.C., debate, Jeb Bush and Ted Cruz both got under Trump’s skin, and he cracked. He shouted his true feelings, and they were ugly to see. Regarding the Iraq War, Trump made it quite plain that he believes the fever-swamp “Bush lied, people died†narrative of the radical Left. The transcript could not be more clear.
Trump: You do whatever you want. You call it whatever you want. I wanna tell you. They lied.
John Dickerson: Okay.
Trump: They said there were weapons of mass destruction. There were none. And they knew there were none. There were no weapons of mass destruction.
Not only is Trump ignorant of the thousands of chemical weapons found in Iraq, he’s spouting talking points you likely won’t even hear from Hillary Clinton. But he wasn’t done. Not by a long shot.
Regarding the horror of 9/11, only a committed leftist would pin the undeniable failure of America’s security apparatus on George Bush and George Bush only, but that’s what Trump did. Again, the transcript is clear:
Trump: How did he keep us safe when the World Trade Center . . . The World — I lost hundreds of friends. The World Trade Center came down . . . during the reign. He kept us safe? That’s not safe. That is not safe.
There is no mention of the failures of two successive administrations, including the Clinton administration’s wholly inadequate response to the Africa embassy bombings
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So go ahead and see what that gets you. I’ll bet that and 50 cents might buy you a cup of coffee. Oh wait!
No. Donald Trump just spoke in Mt. Pleasant and I agreed with everything he said. He truly will have the ability to work for us and not special interests. He can get the economy back — we are so owned by other countries and international industry and that is SCREWED. All the other candidates are owned. They can’t work for us, they CANT. THEY DONT HAVE THAT FREEDOM.
Stop joking around about the color of the jerseys. It doesn’t matter. We need to have a country back.
More mewing frommthe NR.
If a democrat can score on just one important conservative goal, it’s more than any of the GOP candidates can accomplish. I’ll take it.
It also speaks volumes about rank and file Republicans, don’t you think? I’m talking about people who would pillory just about anyone else floating the crazy rhetoric Trump does, but who are somehow caught up in his cult of personality. It’s enough to make one question the collective mental health of the nation.
You people that are falling for this charlatan are being hoodwinked.
Thanks very much for your thoughtful reply.
I think Sowell is more in agreement you: “’Comprehensive immigration reform’ means doing everything all together in a rush, without time to look before we leap, and basing ourselves on abstract notions about abstract people.” He most definitely differentiates and is dismissive of immigration in the abstract.
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“In agriculture, the farmers would obviously prefer to get workers who get low pay rather than workers they have to pay a higher wage,” he continued. “And as long as there are an unlimited supply of farm workers coming in from Mexico, they will never have to raise the wages very much. They say Americans won’t do these jobs. These are jobs Americans have done for generations, if not centuries. And it’s a time when millions of Americans are out of work, and are looking for any kind of work. And so this is utter nonsense.”
Also I don’t think Trump is alone in appreciating the problem of Muslim immigration. As applies to Cruz, I don’t believe his policy cannot be summed up as you state. Rather: https://www.congress.gov/congressional-record/2015/11/19/senate-section/article/s8116-1
I agree that Reagan spoke conservatism intuitively; but, I don’t think he “just got it” overnight. It was the result of long study and thought until it became part of him, his deepest beliefs - and then policy and action became intuitive.
I don’t Trump has anything near this. I think he throws flames to attract a crowd. I don’t see any depth or real conviction in his thought on economics, foreign policy or immigration.
I’ll leave a discussion of free trade and tariffs, short term/long term for another time and just note that China’s economy is not doing so well now.
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