It would have been VERY easy for a "moderate" to start backpedaling there but Trump didn't.
If you look at EVERY position he has brought up in the last year, with the exception of Kelo, he has moved right and sometimes very far right. No one with his kind of lead does this. They are already starting to appeal to the "broader electorate"--- but not Trump. Now, it would be reasonable to say "he's an opportunist" but if do he is the only opportunist I have seen who risks his own money and reputation like this. A more likely assessment is that he has moved---and is still moving---to the right, much like Reagan did from 1950-64. Reagan moved in large part due to the research he did on the GE tours, as well as what he heard from ordinary people at the plants. I am thinking Trump has gotten a very similar education through the campaign itself.
In short, I think Trump is doing in condensed fashion what RR did in terms of growing into a bona fide conservative.
I thought I pointed out that he doesn’t cower when the media or elites go after him. ;-D
My question to you, LS, is how you feel you can qualify real, genuine growth in the direction of conservatism as different from mere electioneering without any serious proof? Back in the day, you or I would sneer at such promises made on the stump, with little to back them up.
I mean, Reagan is incontestable - But that is because of more than a decade of thought put into action - You can see his mind changing, not only in the record of the media, but also in the record of his actions. By the time I was asked to vote for Reagan, I had a very predictable guarantee of his actions being true-blue. It is that record, more than his speeches, that made me very comfortable puling the lever for him.
How is it that I can find a similar guarantee of Trump's words?