>>> I’ve been there with George HW Bush. People told me over and over again that he was a “conservative” and that he would promote a “conservative agenda”, and then he didn’t
I have no illusions that Trump is an ideological conservative. But at this time, I still support him 100%. There is a major national realignment happening. The labels liberal and conservative are taking on less meaning, while nationalist vs. globalist is dominating the debate.
Trump is the only nationalist in the mix, and the consensus among many conservatives (at least on this site) is that if the borders and immigration and trade can’t be fixed, then all is lost. Do I expect Trump to be a small government conservative? Absolutely not... but then again, I don’t trust Cruz in that regard as far as I can spit after his mask came off in recent months. But Trump loves America and what we used to call the American Way, I think most would agree. The same cannot be said of the current Resident.
Cruz, Clintons, Bushes, Doles, Mitch and the Gang, McCain, Obamas, Kasich, G.Ford, Congress, Congressional Aides, Staff, State Dept., .....
...all never on the receiving end of their own rules and statutes.
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Now this I regard as an entirely rational approach. The Consolation prize with Trump is that he will address some of the *MOST* important issues, even though he will probably make a mess of the lesser issues.
Yes, we need pushback against the globalist efforts. Yes, we need more nationalism, and I hope Trump will move in this direction.
Trump is the only nationalist in the mix, and the consensus among many conservatives (at least on this site) is that if the borders and immigration and trade can’t be fixed, then all is lost.
I do not believe that Cruz is a globalists. I've seen people accusing him of that, i've seen people making an issue out of his wife working for Goldman Sachs, but I haven't seen anything that I regard as reasonable proof that he is in favor of Globalism rather than Nationalism.
But I agree with you that we *MUST* get control of our borders and we *MUST* stop allowing International corporations to have so much influence on our society and public policy.
Do I expect Trump to be a small government conservative? Absolutely not...
Nor do I, and I regard that as a pretty serious problem.
but then again, I don’t trust Cruz in that regard as far as I can spit after his mask came off in recent months.
I see a lot of allegations repeated over and over and over again. I am not persuaded by "argumentum ad populum". When I have made efforts to examine the facts on various accusations, it has invariably turned out that the people making the accusations were the ones doing the misleading.
I remember seeing one video that someone posted about Cruz's "Lies." The first "Lie" was how Cruz said John Roberts would make a great Supreme Court Justice.
I pointed out to the person who posted it that we all thought John Roberts would make a great Supreme Court Justice, and Cruz no more "lied" about this than any of us. We were just all mistaken.
Making a mistake is not a "lie", and it is a Lie to portray such a mistake as a lie.
There has been too many false accusations and rumor mongering in this campaign. I thought our side was more reasonable and decent than the Democrats, yet I saw many people repeating the most vicious accusations against both Cruz and Trump.
This "mob" mentality is ugly, and I had thought we were better than this.