Government is SUPPOSED to secure the borders. The wall WILL take government to prevent interlopers and aliens from hording in and with the will of the citizens conduct a manageable and legal immigration policy. It WILL require the GOVERNMENT to provide security and personnel and management and upkeep of the wall and the border.
So yes, in one sense Trump is for government - to do what it is SUPPOSED to do.
Maybe I LIKE that kind of big government, and that is the suspicion of Trump, that he just might have government big enough in will to DO what it is SUPPOSED to do.
I was a subscriber of NR back in the days of WFB, but stopped after NR spent a decade building up what the Republican establishment is today. NR is partially reponsible for the Republican party distancing themselves from the base, becoming the Chamber of Commerce crowd that turned the Republican Party into the open borders-amnesty club on behalf of cheap labor benefactors, as well as the entire elitist attitude that pundits should tell the base what to think and that pundits choose the nominees and not the base.
In effect, that is what NR now is - or thinks they are. Pundits who must tell what the base is to think, and pundits who must choose the nominee and not, for heaven’s sake, the voting base that is supporting the front runner Trump - in fact, what NR is saying is that THE BASE has a “checkered past” and is not “true” in as much as they see Trump as not being their “bellhop” to their “punditism”.
You, the Republican base, is as much the guilty of what they falsely stereotype and attack Trump with. YOU the base are not bot enough to their punditism. YOU cannot be “trusted”. Look at you yell. Barbarians. You think YOU can dictate immigration policy? You think YOU can war against ISIS? You?
The pundits of NR helped Rove’s “American Crossroads” that clearly is only for “moderate” Republicans. They attacked Pat Buchanan in the same manner they attack Trump.
The reason Trump is “not conservative” to the pundits is because he isn’t for open borders and amnesty and has the “bombastic” gawl to even speak about it.
That is it. It is about that.
In 2008 National Review endorsed and promoted Senator John McCain. During the primaries endorsed and supported Mitt Romney. In 2012 National Review endorsed Mitt Romney for President.
NR had already become the Romney of the 2000-2010 decade. Romney today attacks Trump with the same words NR is using right now.
They will like to claim if William F. Buckley, Jr. were alive today, he would also be attacking Trump. Bull **** he would have. Anyone who has read Buckley’s book “The Unmaking of a Mayor” and followed Buckley’s Mayoral candidacy for Mayor of NYC in 1965 knows such a claim by these pundits is b.s. and self-serving, Buckley ran with an oratory and bombastic and pundit- contrarianism that would make Trump proud.
Buckley was attacked in the same manner Trump is. He set the ground work for a “bombastic” Goldwater and “an entertainer” Reagan. And WFB was attacked for being “New Yorker” who was born in NYC, was a suspect as a “liberal intellectual” and “from a rich family” (the son William Frank Buckley, Sr., a lawyer and oil developer).
I say Buckley would be SUPPORTING Trump. And he would be critical of these pundits.
Political pundits now think they should choose the President. Â Just like the Republican establishment. Just like some radio hosts. I think it should be the people’s choice.
National Review club of pundits are out of touch with the base, the voters, and in part responsible for the establishment the people are against and the entire mess we are in today.
I am an American first, a Republican second. The pundits say someone like me is a Duck Dynasty idiot unworthy to be part of the process, that I need a nose ring to pull me here and there.
By the way. “Duck Dynasty†star Willie Robertson just endorsed Donald Trump at the 16th annual Outdoor Sportsman Awards in Las Vegas on Thursday night. Perhaps NR should hire him to write articles, perhaps I would subscribe.
There ARE RULES regarding moderators. No NR pundit which has already made clear their agenda. Nor do I want Megyn Kelly of FOX. As far as the RNC, even they are not going to make that error - all it would do is give Trump hunderds of thousands of more votes if an agendist from NR was sitting there.
He won't really do it. He needs cheap labor for his businessesss. He won't do anything he's saying he will. He's trying to sell you a product - himself.
I posted this before, so I'll just re-post it here....
Check out something called "mirroring." It's a sales trick all good salesman use. Trump is "mirroring" us, or holding a "verbal" mirror in front of himself, so all we see in this mirror is .....us. Who can be against ....us? Who could not vote for.....us? If you take a minute and look behind the mirror (the manufactured "verbal" reflection of ourselves), you'll see the real man hiding behind it.
Used car salesman use this trick every time. If you cross your legs, he'll very subtly cross his legs. If you scratch your nose, he'll scratch his nose. If you tap your finger, he'll very subtly tap his finger. He'll be a perfect, subconscious reflection of ....YOU. By the time the wheeling and dealing is over, you'll think the guy is the most honest, trustworthy guy you ever met. Why, you'd have to distrust YOU in order to distrust him because you're two peas in a pod - or so he got you to believe. He used the "mirror" technique you get you to buy a car that won't make it a mile down the road before it blows a head gasket!
. That's why Trump all of a sudden is just like us. If we want borders closed, he wants borders closed. If we want lower taxes, he wants lower taxes. If we want to stop abortion, he wants to stop abortion. It's a 180 from all his past beliefs, but you won't notice that unless you take the time to notice the guy hiding BEHIND the mirror.(And you'll be shocked at what you discover).