If Trump embraces and expands the kind of abuse of office through executive orders and memoranda that Obama has employed he'll institutionalize that precedent. With kind of power, the next liberal President could well provoke a civil war when those means are turned to advancing the liberal agenda.
I remain wary of wolves in sheep's clothing.
To think for a New York Second that Trump didn't do his market research thoroughly before embarking on the campaign trail is just naive. He knew exactly what angles and actions, what buzzwords and hot topics would sell with a disgruntled electorate. And he is a master of the deal. A consummate pitchman.
I find eleventh hour epiphanies to be questionable at best, and what passes for Conservatism in New York often falls far short of the mark in flyover country.
There are those here who support him unquestioningly because he slaps all the right faces, steps on the right toes, and are starry-eyed over that. The part I don't get is their lining up and foaming at the keyboard attacks on someone who has been consistently in the trenches fighting the fight against the GOPe for years.
We've seen guys with minstrel shows selling snake oil in the hinterlands before. Cutting deals with the GOPe and pandering to the Iowa ethanol lobby look like the beginning of a long term sell-out to me.
To specifically address that issue, the EPA (tyranny!) was founded during a Republican administration. The Patriot Act was rife with opportunity for abuse. What the Left cannot get through over the objections of the Right, the Right gets through over the chirp of crickets. The consolidation of Federal Power has reached into your toilet, your light socket, your doctor-patient relationship, and continues, regardless of who is running the show.
A right-wing populist candidate could get things past the starry-eyed that even Obama can't.
If we want to stop tyranny, we need someone of principle.
Someone who is the master of the deal might just bargain our Liberty away.
The ethanol endorsement shows me there is no intent to rid us of the EPA which is abusing its power and crippling our economy. It shows me he is willing to sell the rest of the nation out for the corn lobby in a small midwestern state. What does that bode for the future over major deals if not ill?