Free Republic

The only defense of Trump is a defense of the nation and the sovereignty of the people. We haven’t even gotten to Constitutionalism. That’s going to come later...I don’t defend Trump as a conservative. I defend Trump as an American, which is the way he defends himself. And so that’s why…does he call himself a conservative?...For me, these labels or the slogans that we use now are of no import. There’s only one slogan that Trump uses that is revealing, and that is, “Make America great again.” And that slogan is revealing because it says that something like this: “America...

I see why Trump raises the question of character, because there’s no public record of his life by which to assess him – in a political sense. And so people have to assess him in terms of the personal qualities — his personal life, his business life, which is again still his private life. How do we understand his private conduct in context of his prospective presidency? I would suggest that in many ways it’s meaningless to ask the question. Even those people of character like Obama can do great damage if they make the wrong choices politically. Most all...