” ...makes me view Trump as a typical Republican. “
Basically, Trump is a Democrat from a couple decades back - when they / unions favored tight borders, strong military, infrastructure programs and big govt entitlements.
Trump, great as he is on some issues, is cleanly to the Left of even the typical Republican when it comes to big govt dependency-producing entitlements.
We knew this in the primary race. We knew he would be no help addressing the nation’s greatest problem which is the giant dependency producing and debt exploding entitlements.
But we did not expect Trump to buddy up to the establishment so quickly to create brand new federal entitlements - entitlements created by Republicans is not winning, not from Freedom’s perspective.
It seems illogical and unusually immature to declare war against Freedom’s most reliable factions just because his reputation earned a well-deserved boo-boo over the TrumpCare debacle.
Most disappointing that "I am just the messenger" now looks like bullshit sales talk. It's going to take a bit of work for him to turn this one back around.