Trump’s growing list of apostasies puts him at odds with decades of Republican beliefs

Washington Post ^ | March 22, 2016 | Philip Rucker and Dan Balz

[aumrl]

we have had many many debates....
and cruz is still around 20%.....

are we electing a pres or a debater?

[PA-LU Student]

You know I don’t mind the JEB and Linda endorsments, you know why. Because when Cruz mentions them, all of those sorts are mentioned together. Showing Cruz recognizes the friends and the enemies. It is sort of like allying with soviet Russia in WW II. They were so opposed to our system but they were usefull in fighting the war.

[aumrl]

Man o man !
So many thoughtful intelligent posts on this thread!

One of the reasons why FR is so valuable

[crusher2013]

“The conservatism offered by GOP elites is now as dead as the dodo.”

They really don’t get it.

They think that when Trump is gone it will be back to business as usual.

Trump is just the messenger.

The Republican’s have lost the base and don’t get it yet.

Its much easier for the base to find new leaders than it is for them to find a new base.

[Nifster]

Then you will get more of the same. The govt today is full of commies because our ‘friends’ we’re on a different path

You do not understand the lessons of history

[Reagan Disciple]

“I will be changing very rapidly. I’m capable of changing to anything I want to change to.” - DT

All you need to know. All the zombies refuse to know.

[Datom]

I think Trump is already serving notice on the rest of the world that if things do not change they will not like what he will do with foreign policy unlike Obama who tells the world every troop withdraw he is going to make and when. He is serving them notice that if here has to be just one bad ass on the block it is going to be the United States. The only thing the middle east understands is the ability to kill them....lots of them.

[bert]

when considering who’s an apostate, consider Jeb is for Cruz. Beck is for Cruz. Lindsey, for goodness sake is for Cruz

How much more anticonservative can it get

[Jim Noble]

The list of Trump’s apostasies is lengthy and growing by the day. He said this week that he sees little value in U.S. military commitments in the Asia-Pacific region. He questions the terms of U.S. involvement in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). He opposes free-trade agreements. He advocates taxing imports from China.

Most Republican voters have never favored any of those things.

[Luke21]

The Wapo would produce the same article with Cruz’s name in it if he were the leader.

[catnipman]

Here’s some more “apostasies” to add to the “list”:

Only a few weeks ago, Trump singularly upset the whole election apple cart! That’s what he’s done!

Trump set the national agenda by opposing illegal immigration and bringing up other issues that the GOPe and their allies desperately wanted to avoid, and now they can’t. No one would even be talking about illegal immigration today if Trump hadn’t forced the issue.

The GOPe was not prepared for this, and as a consequence they don’t have a clue about what to do, hence their almost universal collapse into a pile of quivering jello, flip-flopping like a bag of Mexican jumping beans dumped on a hot griddle. That’s what Trump has done.

Trump has exposed those who pretend to be conservative but are really just fronts for big money establishment campaign donors who purchase their candidates with campaign “donations”. Trump has ripped the facade off of the fake “conservative” websites that are really fronts for the modern aristocracy as part of the plan to fool the people into thinking at least SOME of the institutions are on their side.That’s what Trump has done.

Trump, by actually being a real man, has exposed the other candidates and their allies for the weak little sniveling sellouts that they really are.

Trump’s vociferous truth-telling and fearless neutering of the kommie media have been the catalyst that triggered a massive revolt amongst conservative voters who are infuriated at the GOPe Congress doing absolutely ZERO to stop Obama’s agenda, and suddenly the GOP RINO leadership is in full blown panic mode and in full blown retreat, and the SMALL conservative House contingent smelt blood in the water, took heart, and charged in against a weakened, frightened and paralyzed GOPe leadership, and Boehner was taken out as a sacrificial lamb. That’s what Trump has done.

Without Trump taking on the enemedia and beating them, the first time this has been done since Reagan, Cruz and the rest would be quivering before their concerted assaults and spending all of their time apologizing for having accidentally strayed into the shallows of political correctness and saying something Black Lives Matter or the Southern Poverty Law Center hate groups hated with consequent massive amplification by the enemedia as they pounded their PC drums against the GOP. That’s what Trump has done.

Trump is absolutely correct when he says that without Trump in the race, everything would be same-ol’, same-ol. The Joyful Tippy-Toes Turtle would be creeping closer to the finish line, Boehner would still be safely ensconced as Speaker, and there would be no mention of illegal immigration are any of the issues surrounding it by any politician in either party, other than possibly how critical it would be to pass immigration “reform”. That’s what Trump has done.

After only four state primary elections, Trump has already taken out all but one GOP RINO candidate. That’s what Trump has done.

Trump has used the enemedia against itself, exposed FNC for being Rupert Murdoch’s personal propaganda channel, and made the other cable networks realize they can grow their ratings by playing more fairly. That’s what Trump has done.

Trump has attracted the “big tent” coalition that the GOPe always professed it wanted, but never really did, by appealing equally to all demographic groups, whether they be rich or poor, educated or uneducated, old or young, male or female, blue collar or white collar, north or south, east or west. That’s what Trump has done.

The media are loath to make the connection, but it’s obvious that the Boehner resignation was yet another falling domino, toppling due to the Trump Effect, because Trump’s unabashed truth-telling and fearless neutering of the kommie media triggered a revolt amongst the great unwashed GOP masses which emboldened a few conservative Congress critters to grow a few pairs. That’s what Trump has done.

Trump’s coalition of voters have panicked the Senate into growing a backbone and standing up to Obama by refusing to consider any Supreme Court nominee until the next President is in office. That’s what Trump has done.

And our nation wouldn’t even be having ANY of these conversations about illegal immigration and the myriad of other Obammunist issues destroying our country if it wasn’t for Trump. Instead, we’d simply be debating which RINO, GOPe squish would be least likely to be stomped by Hillary, and the GOPe would once again be exhorting the “base” about how critical it is for us to once again vote for the “lesser of two evils”, that is, vote for the GOPe side of the Uniparty coin. That’s what Trump has done.

And do note that ALL of the oligarchs and plutocrats are frightened to death of Donald Trump because the billionaires and millionaires can’t buy him like all of the other politicians they routinely purchase, because Trump doesn’t need nor want their money, and the kommie media is frightened to death of him because he isn’t afraid of them either, the bottom line being that Donald Trump can not be controlled by the rich and powerful or the corrupt media, so for anyone who is truly for campaign finance reform and wants to take money out of politics, voting for Trump is the only reasonable choice. That’s what Trump has done.

Donald J. Trump is the very epitome of the anti-social-justice-warrior, and he’s galvanized an entire nation of the like minded who have been desperately waiting for years for a leader who could lead them from the desert of political correctness.

President Trump is really the last hope for this country: if he can’t undo any of the damage wrought by the Obammunists, the U.S.A. is done.

So least we forget, the above, and much more, are called “The Trump Effect”.

[lewislynn]

Republican Party’s values and priorities dating back half a century or more.

Well except for that breath of fresh air from Reagan that the WAPO hated...Its the half century of Republican's loser mentality and the liberal me too priority that the WAPO (and apparently you) wish to continue.

[Twinkie]

There’s no government by mankind that is ever going to
be perfect.

[sickoflibs]

RE:”mean Kelly’s fault anyway.
.....
Yeah but she set him up and made him change his position”

Exactly, good thing the nominee wont run into anything like that during the general election.