He has to win over the “ask not what I can do for my country, but ask what can my country do for me” independents. Those are the people who pushed Obama over the top.
Social and fiscal conservatives like us, unfortunately, make up a very small percentage of the electorate. Trump is running on that platform to get the nomination. In fact he is running hard right on that platform and he will, unfortunately, not be able to run that hard right in the general.
Trump is being “expedient”. Is he better than anything the democrats have to offer? Well, Satan would be better than Hillary or Sanders. But they are going to appeal to the “ask not what I can do for my country, but ask what can my country do for me” democrats and independents. Trump has to get some of them. Reagan had to take GHWB along for the ride.
I can’t argue with you, but Trump abandons me when he abandons “close the border”. That is his primary credential, and I’m okay with getting that one thing.
However, in reading his history, it appears he really was a Reagan republican when he was young. He backslid. He’s not so much a convert as a reclaimed sinner. Let’s see what happens is the gamble I’m taking.
But I get open borders with anyone else who is likely to win, and Cruz is closed border but keeps shooting himself in the foot.
Both of them support ‘legal immigration’, and I’d like a total moratorium on that, but not one politician is asking for that.