Trump has a history of giving money to whomever will allow him to make money. He strongly supported Kelo v. Connecticut. That decision allows your local gov. to take your property if they think they can make more money by selling it someone else.
He thinks tariffs will work. Tariffs don’t work. The Smoot-Hawley tariff made the depression a lot worse. He’s made a lot of other anti-free trade statements.
In short, he’s not a conservative. He’s an opportunist. Hes in it for himself.
Free Trade? Like the 5,000 page Goldman Sachs written TPP? That kind of “free trade”?
Really, on what basis should conservatives trust Goldman Sachs and their bought and paid for politicians to bring us folks on Main Street “free trade”.
Free trade is a fairy tale these days. It’s crony capitalist transnationalist unfree trade and it does not benefit us at all.
We need a counter balance to the globalists and the threat of a few in kind tariffs is an excellent opening negotiating position, IMO. They really don’t want that.
The free market system is never perfect, because no human-made system is perfect. But what we try to do is make it as fair as possible knowing that there will always be imperfections.
Electing Trump is just electing one of the people who helped screw up the system. He's in it for himself.