Why don’t you just cut to the chase and tell us what you don’t like about his platform.
(this ought to be good)
Did you hear anything from 1010?
My approach is this: History is the best indicator of future behavior. Politicians, and Trump is a politician (just not as a profession), say many things and even anything to get elected. That’s their business. What can/should a voter do? Be skeptical.
I like a lot of what Trump says, but I am a classical liberal: small government, private property, individual liberty.
Do we judge a person by what they say or what they do? Trump hasn’t done anything conservative with the hundreds of millions of dollars at his disposal, yet I should believe him? I am not searching for a guy to “manage things better”. I don’t want a better dictator, but a lover of liberty.
Several things concern me about Trump. As noted, his complete lack of action on conservative issues despite the means and motive (if we believe he is a sincere convert to our cause(s)).
Next, his serial wifery. If you cannot be good to your number one gal, then were does that leave us? Trophy wifism is a sure sign of selfish narcissism.
Furthermore, he didn’t raise his terrific kids. Ivana’s parents did. They were old world Czechs. Is it accident or design that Trump ignored his family and lucked out that Ivana’s parents were well grounded and moral? A man that ignores his children for money and fame isn’t a man I respect.
Much is made of his business success and that is partly true. His father gave him at least $100 million ($558 million in 2014 dollars) around 1972 and Trump has built on that. Many wealthy heirs lose their fortunes. So that speaks well of him. Yet, he underperformed the objective money management measure, namely the stock market which appreciated 10.4%/year on average over those 43 years.
We know though from experience that most of the 1% tend toward the social convenience of liberalism. It’s rare to find a conservative in their ranks and this brings me to my final concern for this post.
Trump is a urbanite from America’s largest city. It’s rare to find a person from an extremely cosmopolitan and diverse city who isn’t center-left.
If only Trump acted and behaved as a conservative and put his money toward conservative causes, then I’d like him a lot.