Laz, that all sounds good until you consider two things:
1. He’s saying those things NOW, as an opportunist, but his past beliefs betray a much more malleable position on ALL these topics, and...
2. You have to dig a little deeper on each to see that there is a flip side to many. For example:
“Build the border wall...” with a giant, beautiful, open door (touchback amnesty)
“cancel Obama’s unconstitutional executive orders...” except that Trump has already indicated that he doesn’t understand what is Constitutional and what is not. He’s actually indicated that he would make MORE unconstitutional executive orders - i.e. try and legislate from the executive branch. Yay - more lawlessness!
“negotiate prescription drug prices...” which basically means injecting the government into something that should be managed by better free market principles. When was that conservative again?
“repeal and replace Obamacare...” with a system that he is quoted as saying would “cover everyone” and that the “government would pay.” Uh... conservative?
“simplify the tax code...” in itself is not conservative. Bernie would also like to simplify it with “tax the rich.” Trump’s tax plan is still highly progressive, which is not a conservative tax plan. So, you can simplify it all you want, but if you don’t replace with a consumption or flat tax, it really isn’t conservative.
“repatriate 2.5 trillion in off-shore profits...” which is code for, “so I can tax those big corporate bastards.” Hardly a conservative line. How about creating an attractive business environment here so businesses WANT to stay in the U.S.? Here’s a better conservative idea: eliminate corporate taxes altogether since they are really just a cost that is passed on to the consumer.
“reform the libel laws to remove the ‘public figure’ distinctions...” seriously? How is this conservative, constitutional, or protecting of free speech? So now people with deep pockets can sue their critics into silence, whether they are right or wrong, just by making their life difficult with an endless stream of lawsuits?
“defund Planned Parenthood until they stop doing abortions...” but totally support them for all their other “good work?” Please. How about just “defund them?” When should an NGO like PP be getting ANY money from the government, regardless of whether or not they are doing abortions? The true conservative position is simply “defund them” with NO qualifier.
“cutting waste, fraud, and abuse wherever it is found...” except when found in Trump’s personal organizations. If Trump University doesn’t make you believe that this is just lip-service, nothing will.
“destroy the culture of Political Correctness...” except for that part where I’m going to allow libel lawsuits to stifle free speech. Ignore that part. Because if you piss me off, I will sue you in a heartbeat.
I think you’re finding all your damnation to fall short so you are reduced to nit picking and sometimes even inaccurate nit picking.
Touchback schmouchback (though this probably more like screenback). The idea is to impose control on the chaos. And if it means to tell the unapproved to go back to Mexico, it does.