“But seriously, he’s not defending Conservatism. He’s rarely pushing any agenda of note.”
Gorsuch
Military strength
Defeating ISIS
Deregulation
Repealing Obamacare
Tax cuts
Bringing industry back to America
Jobs
Energy independence
Ending Obama’s war on coal
Freeing the US from the climate change agenda
Rebuilding infrastructure
Funny how none of this showed up on your radar. But then neverTrump, like the MSM, only criticizes.
Pretty sure we are all aware of the judges, and I’ve said elsewhere (maybe even in this thread) that the judges are by themselves reason enough to be glad Trump won the election.
And I mentioned deregulation as another great thing that would never have happened without Hillary being defeated.
However, I would say “repealing Obamacare” is an example of him NOT pushing the conservative agenda. He has done very little on this, given not very many speeches, not invested a lot of capital. He actually criticized a tiny conservative push on the issue as being “mean”, he supported half-measures, quarter-measures, and even the almost meaningless measures. I’m sure if anything passed he’d call it “repealing Obamacare”. He fights to keep things like forcing companies to cover pre-existing conditions, which may be necessary but isn’t the conservative position.
Jobs, well “Jobs” is not a conservative or liberal thing, it’s how you push them. In general, conservatives push for the feds to get out of the jobs business, because we are for limited government. Trump is a big-government job creator, pushing for the feds to intervene to create jobs (except the deregulations also work to create jobs, we addressed that above). His position on trade agreements is not clearly conservative. His attacks on businesses for sound business practices that are not “pro-american” is not conservative.
Sadly, “Military Strength” has become a conservative thing, it should be a universal thing. And one good thing is he’s not afraid to just take action when it is politically incorrect to do so.
Tax cuts will be a great thing, if it actually ever happens. The “non-conservative” George Bush did that in his first 4 months of office.
The climate change action is also good; a whole part of the “repealing Obama regulation/executive orders”.
On the other hand, we still have DACA. We still have the Iran deal.
The fact that we have NOT passed a trillion-dollar infrastructure deal is a “conservative” thing, but I think you were saying his PUSHING for infrastructure was a conservative thing. Not sure though. If we are including things he hasn’t gotten done, he’s been a bit more conservative.
I think social conservatives have more to be happy about maybe than fiscal conservatives.
It’s just dissappointing that, as a great communicator, Trump can’t figure out how to make common-sense points (like “Of course, the KKK and other extremist groups are hateful, but if you look at the rally, there were people there who were not Klan, not Nazis, and not with White supremicist groups, and it is wrong to smear every participant with the most vile among them, even as it would be wrong to smear all those rallying against them with the actions of the violent Antifada and other extremists on the left”
I doubt he really wanted the news to be “Trump says there are fine Neo-Nazis”. I doubt he wanted to lose Julias Krein when Trump clearly does NOT support these groups.
Hence, I still believe that the way he said things was wrong-headed, and did nobody any favors.