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Actions speak louder than words, my friend. This is not an attack on you. We can have differences and discuss this. And this is how I feel about Trump and RFK Jr.

Whether Trump self-identifies as a conservative or not, makes ZERO difference to me.

His actions are conservative.

Are ALL of his actions conservative? Absolutely not. But the same can be said of ANY modern President. Look at Reagan with the Immigration Bill he signed back in the Eighties. And so on. So I don't agree with Trump on a variety of issues such as some social issues where he plays the politician with the homosexual community, and I don't agree with his actions on debt reduction, which were limited to creating a rising tide in the economy that floated all boats.

But Trump did things that count as conservative, so that is how I grade HIM. I grade him on THESE things.

Reducing the size of the Federal Register (Until the Democrats hobbled him and began adding things back into it at an astonishing rate)

Moving the US Embassy to Jerusalem

Going head-to-head with the ChiComs on trade (with such things as getting a renegotiation of the horrible Universal Postal Union treaty that governs how much it costs to send mail and packages to other countries. We were being terribly taken advantage of in this treaty for nearly half a century)

Building the wall, even with his entire damned Republican Party stabbing him in the back as he did so

The Abraham Accords

Filling the Strategic Oil Reserves when the price was low

Making America Energy independent in those four years

The pièce de résistance for me, the withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accords, and labeling them with real words, in front of the entire world from the Rose Garden, as a "wealth redistribution scheme" and a hoax.

These are examples just off the top of my head, but THESE are CONSERVATIVE things.

People can call Trump whatever they want to. But THOSE are CONSERVATIVE principles, carried out in action.

I constantly hear people say he is a liberal and always has been, not a conservative, blah blah blah.

Well, you go back to the interviews he did in 1987 with Larry King LINK: 1987 Interview with Larry King and you tell me how much difference there is between the things conservatives admire about him and his attitudes on America's place in the world today, and tell me how materially different from this 1987 interview he is, and that his world view from 1987

RFK Jr not only does NOT even "talk the talk", his rhetoric, which he does not disavow, is the rhetoric of Biden and his Cabinet (apart from COVID and Vaccines) and the likes of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. And that is ALL he has, is rhetoric.

In these next four years, I am not willing to vote for someone who is a Trump-heartbeat away from the Presidency, no matter how 4-D Chess people think it is, who mouths the things (and that is ALL he has, is "mouths") that mirror what comes from the mouths of people I regard as enemies of this Republic.