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What's the deal with Justin Amash?

Posted on 07/04/2019 3:23:22 AM PDT by Jonty30

Why does he hate Trump so much?

While I doubt it, I will ask. Is this anyway a principled stance he is taking?


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KEYWORDS: amash; chatvanity; vanity
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To: Jonty30

I don’t think we give enough consideration to personalities. John McCain let Obamacare stand to spite Trump. I suspect personality differences are at work in this case.

To be sure, the deficit is too high and it will, eventually, undermine our dollar and our economy. But, this is not particularly Trump’s fault. It is also, and perhaps primarily Congress’ fault. Two years ago, our party’s tenuous position in the Senate limited what we could do about the deficit. Now, it the Democrats in the House. Hopefully, we will keep the White House, take back the House and retain or improve on our margin in the Senate next year. In the meanwhile, we just have to work through the situation. Among the lies spread about Trump is that he has some kind of personality disorder. To the contrary, Trump has a good sense of what he can and cannot do, and works relentlessly on what he can do.

With regard to free trade, we have moved to a post-Post-WWII economy. Our former willingness to be the buyer of the surplus output of the world, to promote recovery in Europe and the spread of market-economies and democracy elsewhere, no longer makes sense. Trump’s move to fair trade is totally appropriate. I supported Cruz in the primaries four years ago. Cruz touted a border adjustment tax approach to fair trade. Rand Paul had a position similar to Cruz. Trump has a different approach to fair trade, one involving “deals.” During the campaign, Trump touted his credentials as a deal-maker in seeking to renegotiate trade agreements and in new trade agreements. So far, we only have one breakthrough, the renegotiation of NAFTA. Making global deals is very challenging.

With regard to immigration, Trump has a pretty good approach involving shifting immigration from family unification to merit. With family unification, many immigrants are elderly relatives who, when they come here, go directly onto SSI. With merit, we’d get people who pay into the social insurance system like the rest of us. Merit is not only good for the country, it is fair to the American taxpayer. An indirect effect of our family unification policy is frustration by people who probably would qualify on the basis of merit, which frustration results in illegal immigration. The Democrats oppose merit-based immigration because they want to use immigration to change the electorate of the country.


41 posted on 07/04/2019 5:20:49 AM PDT by Redmen4ever (u)
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To: Jonty30
I'd say the guy has been consistently "conservative/libertarian" in his voting through the years.

Everything he says about the Republican Party is true. The GOP is dominated by a bunch of useless hacks, and they only pretend to be principled conservatives when they're in a position to vote on things that will never get passed into law.

Amash, however, exposed himself as a complete fraud with his attacks on President Trump. You never heard a peep out of him about Obama, did you?

42 posted on 07/04/2019 5:21:24 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave." -- Frederick Douglass)
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To: RoosterRedux

He’s a liar and a shop-lifer. He needs attention and probably a diaper change. Leave him in the car.


43 posted on 07/04/2019 5:21:55 AM PDT by abbastanza
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To: Jonty30

His principle is he wants to be reelected. He’s come to realize that he can not win the primary.


44 posted on 07/04/2019 5:23:00 AM PDT by phoneman08 (qwiyrqweopigradfdzcm,.dadfjl,dz)
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To: Jonty30

Because he sells cheap tools made in China, and his family is middle eastern. Simple as that.


45 posted on 07/04/2019 5:34:23 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: Altura Ct.

Isis sympathizer.


46 posted on 07/04/2019 5:40:40 AM PDT by Colt1851Navy (What was wrong with Nixon?)
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To: Jonty30

President Trumps position on China affected anyone who bet on China over America. This scumbag is just one more among that number. I’m guessing he was particularly exposed financially or legally at this point and he could no longer contain his demons.


47 posted on 07/04/2019 5:46:28 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists...Socialists...Fascists & AntiFa...Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: central_va

Agree with your correction.


48 posted on 07/04/2019 5:46:48 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: Jonty30

In his own words: “No matter your circumstance, I’m asking you to join me in rejecting the partisan loyalties and rhetoric that divide and dehumanize us,” Amash wrote in a Washington Post op-ed.

He doesn’t understand that the dehumanizing is coming from the death cult lefties. You cannot compromise with the death cult democrat party. ever. and he owns a chinese company.


49 posted on 07/04/2019 5:48:17 AM PDT by kvanbrunt2 (spooks won on day 76)
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President Trumps position on China affected anyone who bet on China over America.

It seems to me this would include about half of Free Republic posters.

50 posted on 07/04/2019 5:48:42 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Jonty30

Amash hates Trump because he put tariffs on the Chicoms and its hurting his family’s chinese company. He’s a total hypocrite attention hoe.


51 posted on 07/04/2019 5:49:21 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Jonty30
Why does he hate Trump so much?

Israel

Republican Palestinian-American is sole vote against anti-Semitism monitor
52 posted on 07/04/2019 5:51:14 AM PDT by af_vet_1981 (The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began)
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To: Jonty30

$$$$$$ the trail that leads to everything for a faker.


53 posted on 07/04/2019 5:52:02 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: Bratch

Looks like Ol’ Justin’s roots in America run pretty shallow.


54 posted on 07/04/2019 5:59:48 AM PDT by excalibur21
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To: Jonty30

He really wasn’t a Republican, he was a fake. He is another Collins, Romney, etc.


55 posted on 07/04/2019 5:59:58 AM PDT by Engedi (ui)
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Breaking News:

Michigan Rep. Justin Amash quits GOP, says he is ‘frightened’ by party politics

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/michigan-rep-justin-amash-quits-gop-says-he-is-frightened-by-party-politics

56 posted on 07/04/2019 6:06:16 AM PDT by TruthWillWin ([[[MSM]]])
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57 posted on 07/04/2019 6:08:55 AM PDT by TruthWillWin ([[[MSM]]])
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To: Jonty30

He’s such a massive disappointment, I confess to being a bit bitter about it. This behavior is such a massive break from how he used to be, and so without reasonable explanation, that I have come to suspect something along the lines of a secret video with Amash and minor children in various states of undress could be a part of the equation.


58 posted on 07/04/2019 6:15:13 AM PDT by thoughtomator (The Clinton Coup attempt was a worse attack on the USA than was 9/11)
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To: Jonty30

Amash will now join his fellow Palestinian-American, Tlaib


59 posted on 07/04/2019 6:20:19 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
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Did a new thread for this, "Breaking News":

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3761544/posts

60 posted on 07/04/2019 6:27:17 AM PDT by TruthWillWin ([[[MSM]]])
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