So is Bill Gates, so what is your point ?
I thought I was clear with my point, evidently not.
I’ll be much more through.
Ted Cruz is a very smart man, I’m sure he understands the Free Market theory as thoroughly as any other Senator, and arguably much better. At best, however, he has actually experienced it only on a limited scale.
Donald, on the other hand, has lived his whole life in ‘the free market’. Obviously, we now longer have true free markets, and to participate in what we do have, barriers erected by various governments have to be circumvented.
That takes money. Money to buy (bribe really) the politicians who have the power to doom even the most desirable project.
You mentioned Bill Gates. He built a very desirable project, and openly voiced his opposition to government interference. He refused to buy anyone, and Big Government not only resented that, they decided it was dangerous to their existence. The end result was a declaration of war on high tech by the Clinton administration. Janet Reno made that declaration in April of (1996 or 1997?). The result crippled or destroyed many a tech company, including crippling Gate’s Microsoft.
Donald, in a whole different industry, was able to avoid those crushing defeats by spreading money and favors around to his enemies in the political world, the world which could tie his company down like the Lilliputians did in Gulliver’s travels.
Gates eventually capitulated completely, and now parrots the far left meme that only socialism can save the world.
Trump, on the other hand continues to live the life of a free market capitalist as best he can.
Yes, the price for that privilege is still to have enough money, and knowledge, to buy the right politicians.