Because he’s one of them? What do I win?
From the article (sound familiar?):
“What has most horrified conservative activists about Trump’s rise is how little he or his supporters seem to care about their anti-government ideology.”
A longer quote is in order!:
“What has most horrified conservative activists about Trump’s rise is how little he or his supporters seem to care about their anti-government ideology. When presented with the candidate’s previous support for higher taxes on the rich or single-payer insurance, heresies of the highest order, Trump fans merely shrug.”
Because he’s a Democrat. That was easy.
Why does the Left keep saying stuff like this over and over? Because from their totalitarian perspective, it’s true!
From the article:
“The third reason to prefer a Trump nomination: If he does win, a Trump presidency would probably wind up doing less harm to the country than a Marco Rubio or a Cruz presidency. It might even, possibly, do some good.”
The best point in the article, but it’s largely shrouded in Chait’s usual “I hate republicans, republicans is so stupid” nonsense, is that at the first sign of political trouble, Trump will probably revert to his “moderate” or even liberal leaning ways. This is my biggest fear of a Trump presidency.
More from the article...do you so the very REAL and PRESENT danger folks???
“The Trump campaign may feel like an off-the-grid surrealistic nightmare, The Man in the High Castle meets Idiocracy. But something like it has happened before. Specifically, it happened in California, a place where things often happen before they happen to the rest of us, in 2003, when Arnold Schwarzenegger won the governorship. At the time, the prospect of Schwarzenegger governing America’s largest state struck many of us as just as ghastly as the idea of a Trump presidency seems now. Like Trump, Schwarzenegger came directly to politics from the celebrity world without bothering to inform himself about public policy. He campaigned as a vacuous Man of Action in opposition to the Politicians, breezing by all the specifics as the petty obsessions of his inferiors.”
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“But then something funny happened. When his legislative agenda stalled and his ballot measures failed, Schwarzenegger reversed course. The new Schwarzenegger compromised with Democrats on the budget, raising taxes and funding new public infrastructure. He abandoned his opposition to gay marriage, passed redistricting reform, and enacted cutting-edge legislation to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. He proposed sweeping health-care reform based on Mitt Romney’s successful Massachusetts plan. It failed, but when President Obama passed a national health-care law (also based on Romney’s plan), Schwarzenegger defied furious Republicans and eagerly hopped aboard, which enabled his state to roll out its Obamacare exchange smoothly. By the end of his tenure, it was impossible to deny that Schwarzenegger had become a highly effective governor.”
liberalnationalists around. I don t see Trump as a Liberal. I see him as a right of Dem center Dem who either has to move a bit more right or go all in with progressives as most other Democrats have.
Looks to me like he s moved a bit right. That s okay with me. I take the recently converted over the standard establishment.
As mentioned in related threads, patriots please bear the following in mind.
The president has only signature / veto power for domestic policy issues under the Constitution. So patriots need to support the next conservative president by also electing a new, state sovereignty-respecting Congress that will not only work within its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers to support the president, but also protect the states from unconstitutional federal governent overreach.
Such a Congress will also probably be willing to fire state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices.
“Why Liberals Should Support a Trump Republican Nomination’
So the can have two Liberals to choose from in November!
Tax cuts and deregulation of many aspects of the economy are important. However, they are less important than keeping out the flood of Third World immigrants. If our immigration policies continue as they are, the US will be another Latin American country with a decrepit Latin American culture and economy. In other words, there won't be much of an economy to deregulate and not enough of a tax base to worry about cutting.
Only liberals (called moderates in the GOP) support Trump.
The GOP is a machine that harnesses ethno-nationalistic fear of communists, criminals, matrimonial gays, terrorists, snooty cultural elites to win elections and then, once in office, caters to its wealthy donor base. (This is why even a social firebrand like Ted Cruz would privately assure the billionaire investor Paul Singer that he wasnt particularly concerned about gay-marriage laws.)
And what else has old Ted told his billionaire donors they shouldn't be worried about from his campaign rhetoric? Instead of looking for leftist smear articles against Trump, your time would be better spent researching just who Ted's billionaire puppet masters are, and just what they expect from him.
Ted looks more and more like the third term of GWB, a globalist who never saw a trade deal, or an illegal immigrant, or an open border he didn't like.
Chait’s argument seems to be, “Trump is an evil creep, but at heart he’s a liberal, so no problem.”
“....Trumps spent nearly $50,000 to elect congressional Democrats, they donated only $1,000 to the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRSC)....”
Of course Trump supporters say he’s changed since then, but he’s changed on TOO MANY issues JUST BEFORE DECIDING TO RUN, just like Romney.
I didn’t believe Romney, and I don’t believe Trump.