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Trump is a high risk candidate
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Yes he is and almost every one of his supporters know it.
Here it the situation though: Cruz was more of the same. Might be good on social conservative themes and on the border, but here was going to be no major shake-up of the globalist economic view that is killing the middle class and their kids chance for a decent life. No challenge to the politically correct speech codes that are starting to make this country resemble a soft totalitarian nation. No challenge to rather incestuous political scheme where folks go into government serve at salaries of 170,000 dollars, supposedly because they have to maintain 2 households, but by the time they retire in 15 years they have estates worth 5 to 25 million dollars. The most wealthy counties are now those dominated by government employees. All because of officially allowed corruption, much of which is why both parties were open borders, globalist economic worldview.
Trump promises favorable actions in all these things. If he does not deliver, well we are not worse off than if we went with the establishment figure. If he changes things for the better in a few areas, well we have a chance to save the country. Yes he is a risk, but if you are 6 points behind at the 55 second mark and on the opponents 35 yard line on the 4th down, you do not kick a field goal; you take a risk and try to win.
I do understand those who find trump hard to stomach because he is center left on a lot of social issues. Well the ugly truth is to make a correction on any one of these items, we need to build a new coalition, the existing one the republicans have is too small. Further most of these issues have been pushed by the supreme court, frankly that institution cannot be saved by putting in new folks, it must be reformed by a constitutional change. We are far from that now. Trump offers a chance of a political realignment, much like occurred in 1865, 1932 1964 and 1980. Such a realignment, along with some sort of religious value revival is the only possibility of making the long term social conservative changes some folks wish for. It is years ahead of us, at best.
In any case a vote for Hillary or sitting out this election is a mistake. Hillary is so counter western culture and so intent on various odd policies that she is almost a cheap pulp novel villain. For the good of the nation she must be defeated.