Exposing Trumps new found “republicanism” is a valiant effort. But I do hope he keeps it up as I agree with much of what he is saying today. I don’t consider him a serious contender for the White House but he can help set the dialogue. Just as Tancredo brought immigration into the discussion in the 2008 primaries, I hope Trump keeps hammering some of these economic issues.
BTW, it isn’t just Democrats and liberals that are unhappy about China. Watching manufacturing move to China, funding the buildup of their military and giving a communist country more global power, isn’t a partisan issue. In fact, I think many Democrats (e.g. ex-Walmart Board Member Hillary) are just pleased as punch at running productive manufacturing out of the U.S.
Trump brings out one of my pet peeves about these presidential campaigns, both with Obama and McCain in 2008, but with Trump he is in some ways worse.
He has all these easy solutions. He's just going to tell China to send back our manufacturing and they will do it. He's just going to tell OPEC to lower our gas prices and they will do it.
He was on Cavuto yesterday and was asked about carrying out the threats he claims he will make to them, he said that they will just cave if someone stands up to them.
Then he was asked why none of the other presidents did that if it was so easy, he replied that they are either not as smart as him or as tough as him. Now you know he is full of crap with an answer like that. Obama was going to talk to our enemies, and McCain was going to clean our coal, it was just going to be so easy and they got the easy solutions.
We got a snake oil's salesman here.