Really? You mean like slamming big oil and big pharma and big health as the culprits of Obama Care? As in wanting a mandate? As in punishing Ford or Carrier instead of incentivizing them to stay? As in the fact he's never uttered the phrase "limited government" in his entire life? As in favoring ethanol? As in calling the lawyers every time he doesn't get his way?
Outside of strip clubs and casinos and rent controlled apartments and golf developments, all of which were done with skid greasing of politicians, where the heck do you get this great free market stuff? It's not consistent with his history.
Take ethanol, for instance.
First, production of fuel is a national security issue.
Second, I'm betting you don't know how it's processed and used and the real costs.
Third, I'll bet you don't know how farmers are benefited.
Big Talk don't mean doodly squat, kimosabe.
My understanding of Trump is bound up in what I have been told is one of his principles, which lets him go places in the end and get to a deal that is good for him.
It's how he moves the Overton window and why he's been so successful in this campaign.
If you understand he's playing a long term game here, you will understand some of his apparently off the wall statements better.
Examples:
1. His moving the Overton window on illegals.
2. His moving of the Overton window on muzzies.
3. His taking away of the Bush past as an issue (understand I believe he went waaaay to far with this and hated most of what he did, but he took a future issue off the table).
4. His taking away the war on women crap. He did that brilliantly.
5. His putting the Clinton's on notice about #waronwomen, and beginning the death spiral of the Hildabeast. Brilliant.
Yes, he's got problems, yes some things will bite us in the butt, but that's a given with any candidate, including Cruz.