Nosmo King
Gold Member
So Conservatives are more interested in being Isolationist than deficit hawks?Here's the part that defies explanation: Trump ran as a Populist. And as a new comer to the Republican Party. But not as a rock ribbed Conservative ideologue. What happened to all those Conservative principles? The Tea Party movement was, essentially, a bunch of deficit hawks, if they were to be believed. They were strict economic Conservatives. They worked to 'primary out' Republicans who did not fall inline with their orthodoxy. They called them RINOs.
They championed shutting down the government in a fit of political and economic pique. They claimed that their opposition to President Obama was not racial, but philosophical.
And yet they adore Donald Trump! Donald Trump who has declared his vision for the American budget to increase. To increase the size of government by spending more on the military, the infrastructure, building a ridiculous wall across the Mexican border and increasing the size of ICE, Border Patrol and other law enforcement. In other words, the size and power of the federal government.
Were all those pronouncements about cutting the size and budget of the federal government just so much bloviating, or are those Conservative ideals just so malleable that they were held insincerely by those who trumpeted support for them so loudly?
Conservatives principles are a means to an end. The end is the interests of America and Americans.
Trump's immigration and trade policies are obviously going to be good for America.
To the point that he blew all other candidates out of the water.