Fair enough. Not sure you can lump all of us in that boat as some Trump supporters do, but I see that as valid.
I also didn’t vote for Trump to get a water downed version of BOCare only to be told that because the king of the “art of the deal” says it’s a good bill, just get behind it.
What separates true Conservatives from true Liberals is the recognition that country comes before party, liberty comes before control.
This bill had none of the formers and all of the latters.
Since I haven't bought off on the Free Trader globalist agenda I no longer consider myself a Conservative. I am a pro American Patriot instead.
Abolitionists didn’t vote for Lincoln expecting slavery to be ended in ONLY the parts of the country still controlled by the CSA either (basically leaving it in place in practice).
That was considered “watered-down emancipation” and was only done at a politically opportune moment to only get the process going that eventually led to the emancipation of them all SEVERAL YEARS LATER. <——————
But he had to leave out the ones in the “border states” and in territory they controlled and not to make the war about that like the “purist abolitionists” wanted so that he didnt lose the entire game.
Now if something that we today see as a no-brainer decision took that much word-play, finesse, and structured roll-out over several years and phases, I think we can at least give Trump some fricking room here.