You'd never know it to listen to his Far Left, Far Right, and Establishment GOP critics, but Donald Trump is actually the least-conservative GOP candidate on most non-security issues. He's against privatizing Social Security and warns Republicans that "you'll never win that argument." He's for government-provided health care for low-income people. His tax plan is progressive in nature--not "progressive" as in liberal, but "progressive" in that it would require the wealthy to pay higher personal income taxes than the middle class and the poor (but it would also provide substantial tax relief for our businesses). He has called for an end to super PACs. He faulted Kim Davis for not issuing gay marriage licenses and said he agreed that she should be fired if she would not "obey the law." He never talks about abortion, and in previous years he rejected restrictions on abortion that would apply to the first and second terms of pregnancy.
Trump's somewhat moderate stands on non-security issues have alarmed conservative purists and have led them to accuse him of being a "closet liberal" and even "a trojan horse."
Yet, the Far Left and the GOP Establishment have accused Trump of "fascism" and "tyranny" and of being "un-American." Why? Because Trump suggests doing the same thing that Eisenhower did regarding illegal aliens (deport them, and Trump has added that once deported, they would be welcomed to apply for legal entrance), because he opposes our insane and suicidal anchor baby policy (the authors of the 14th Amendment made it clear that it was never intended to allow such a policy), because he has suggested a temporary halt to Muslim immigration ("many" EU ministers have suggested a similar halt), because he has said we should kill the families of terrorists (many relatives of terrorists have been caught covering for them and actively helping them), and because he has openly thought about the idea of a registry for Muslims (Jimmy Carter tracked down Iranians here on visas, had them investigated, and deported some of them as a result).
Indeed, if there were no terrorism concerns and no illegal immigration problem, it is likely that Trump would be seen as the least conservative of the GOP candidates, and his GOP rivals would be attacking him on this basis. In fact, early on Carly Fiorina launched exactly this kind of attack on him, but it didn't get anywhere because illegal immigration and then terrorism dominated the GOP discussion, and on these two issues Trump is the most conservative of the bunch.
So here we have the Far Left, the Far Right, and the GOP Establishment all loudly attacking Trump, with the Far Right saying he's not conservative enough on most issues, and with the Far Left and the GOP Establishment going so far as to compare him to Hitler and to accuse him of having fascist leanings. Incredible.
Trump's somewhat moderate stands on non-security issues have alarmed conservative purists and have led them to accuse him of being a "closet liberal" and even "a trojan horse."
Yet, the Far Left and the GOP Establishment have accused Trump of "fascism" and "tyranny" and of being "un-American." Why? Because Trump suggests doing the same thing that Eisenhower did regarding illegal aliens (deport them, and Trump has added that once deported, they would be welcomed to apply for legal entrance), because he opposes our insane and suicidal anchor baby policy (the authors of the 14th Amendment made it clear that it was never intended to allow such a policy), because he has suggested a temporary halt to Muslim immigration ("many" EU ministers have suggested a similar halt), because he has said we should kill the families of terrorists (many relatives of terrorists have been caught covering for them and actively helping them), and because he has openly thought about the idea of a registry for Muslims (Jimmy Carter tracked down Iranians here on visas, had them investigated, and deported some of them as a result).
Indeed, if there were no terrorism concerns and no illegal immigration problem, it is likely that Trump would be seen as the least conservative of the GOP candidates, and his GOP rivals would be attacking him on this basis. In fact, early on Carly Fiorina launched exactly this kind of attack on him, but it didn't get anywhere because illegal immigration and then terrorism dominated the GOP discussion, and on these two issues Trump is the most conservative of the bunch.
So here we have the Far Left, the Far Right, and the GOP Establishment all loudly attacking Trump, with the Far Right saying he's not conservative enough on most issues, and with the Far Left and the GOP Establishment going so far as to compare him to Hitler and to accuse him of having fascist leanings. Incredible.
