You said...
“Frankly, it looks to me like the GOP is now going to be officially the populist/progressive party if it doesn’t just die.
I think it’s time conservatives abandon the party and form another party.”
It’s mind boggling to watch people who have railed against and expanded Federal government in the last several years now embrace it as long as “their” guy is running it.
I hope to be proven wrong about Trump. If he gets elected and slashes the debt, gives us balanced budgets, restore and abide by the Constitution, and reform SS and Medicare I would love to come back 4 years later and say I was wrong.
But many of the things I’ve heard indicates he wants to be the one that wields the power of the state much to the cheers of many here
I would like to think Cruz would do as he says, but the handshake with Rubio and some votes he has made make me see him as malleable to the establishment if that is what it takes to win. Would he do the same as President?
I know a lot of Trumpers hate Mark Levin, Rush Limbaugh and even Ronald Reagan because the first two see Ted Cruz as like the third.
All three above believe/believed that traditional constitutional conservatism is the only ideology that will, as Ronald Reagan ORIGINALLY said, “Lets Make America Great Again!”
Cruz is everything Duh Donald falsely CLAIMS to be and Trump’s Hollywood honed demagoguery has way too many bamboozled.But as time goes by and Trump’s liberal Democrat record catches up with him to finally convince even the most benighted Trump toadies that their god is a fraud, Ted will be there to end the Leftist American nightmare.
God bless Texans, Okies and Mushers.
I am trying to puzzle out the reasoning here, however.
Graham would back Cruz, presumably because he is less anti-establishment than Trump? Certainly, if Trump were a buddy of these boys in the senate, if he had plans to grow government by leaps and bounds, they'd be supporting him, right? Is it that they worry Trump might actually push to secure the borders? Or is it because he's not in the political class — is it any politician is better than a non-politician?
Are we thinking Trump is a big-government disaster in the making, and the GOP wants to save us from him because they have suddenly converted to wanting what's best for the country rather than themselves?
Or are they thinking that this is their means to getting Clinton and continue the march we are on?