Posted on 01/21/2016 8:12:47 PM PST by Isara
As the election of 2008 approached, America was in crisis. And as we would soon learn, that crisis would not go to waste. Years after Bill Clinton disingenuously claimed that the era of big government was over, Obama won his party's nomination by promising its furious revenge.
For constitutional conservatives, the Republican contest functioned less like a primary and more like an abandonment. Politically orphaned by their party, conservatives were forced to either stay home or hold their noses and vote for a progressive Republican.
There was a silver lining, however. Rising out of the ashes of that electoral defeat came the Tea Party. The media struggled to explain it away as racist, xenophobic, and jingoistic. But the truth is, the Tea Party did not arise because Barack Obama defeated his opposition. It arose because there was no opposition.
Over the years, there have been endless fractures in the façade of individual freedom, but three policies provided the fuel that lit the tea-party fire: the stimulus, the auto bailouts, and the bank bailouts.
Barack Obama supported all three. So did Donald Trump.
While conservatives fought against the auto bailouts, Donald Trump claimed "the government should stand behind [the auto companies] 100 percent" because "they make wonderful products." While conservatives fought against the stimulus, Donald Trump said it was "what we need," praising Obama's schemes of "building infrastructure, building great projects, putting people to work in that sense."
While conservatives fought against the bank bailouts, Donald Trump called them "something that has to get done." Let his reasoning sink in for a second: "[The government] can take over companies, and, frankly, take big chunks of companies."
When conservatives desperately needed allies in the fight against big government, Donald Trump didn't stand on the sidelines. He consistently advocated that your money be spent, that your government grow, and that your Constitution be ignored.
Sure, Trump's potential primary victory would provide Hillary Clinton with the easiest imaginable path to the White House. But it's far worse than that. If Donald Trump wins the Republican nomination, there will once again be no opposition to an ever-expanding government.
This is a crisis for conservatism. And, once again, this crisis will not go to waste.
You're not right. Trump supports amnesty even now.
It’s Beck nuff said.
Seriously you keep posting this stuff and all it is doing is showing you up.
Please for the sake of you just let it go.
Didn’t Trump say build a wall and put a “big door” in it. A big door to let the “good ones back in”? How is that any different than amnesty at the end of the day?
Character doesn’t matter GO CLINTON
Hope and Change GO OBAMA
Build the wall GO TRUMP
One thing about democrats they always have a catchy phrase so you don’t have to waste your time thinking.
LOL... no votes have been cast. There are no winners or losers until the votes are cast. GO TED CRUZ!!!!!
Bump!
Hey conservatives! You know all those bloody, costly political battles you’ve been fighting for decades? One of the things you were fighting, and was being used to defeat you, was Donald Trump’s money. It’s a fact.
With all the bandwidth you are using on the tripe, I just hope you are a Monthly Donor!
I second that!
Glenn Beck? HA HA HA HA.
Trump said that Romney was being “mean spirited” on getting rid of illegals in 2012. And that was during a Presidential election that got Obama reelected. Hows that square with 2013?
Let me help you out here and anticipate the trumpista response:
“Derp, derp, derp, wall, derp, derp derp...”
Even if he destroys the republic along with it?
25K to McAuliffe in VA in a close race against Tea Party candidate Cuchinelli, in 2013.
60K to McConnell in 2014.
100K to the Clinton Fund.
And the list goes on.
ya know these cruz supporters are just posting the same old crap. from now on i’m not going to view or comment on them. i think that they’re down to just trolling for a response, cause their guy has absolutely no chance.
I'm still waiting for the hyperinflation to hit that Beck promised was coming six years ago.
What a kook.
Don’t know other than the Obama/Gang of Eight amnesty plan would end up granting amnesty and voting rights to all illegals and would essentially open the floodgates to all comers.
Would like to see more detail on Trump letting them back in, but I would assume the ones coming back would have to apply for legal immigration and be vetted and that they wouldn’t ALL be let back in.
I definitely like the idea of deporting them all. And building a wall. And enforcing the law. And ending sanctuary cities. And ending anchor babies. And slapping a moratorium on the Muslim invasion.
Ted wanted to grant each and everyone of them legal status in 2013.
Before Trump came long, Ted was handing out soccer balls and Teddy bears to illegal immigrant children.
We wouldn't even be discussing the issue if not for Trump.
Deporting all illegals and making them go through the same legal process as everyone else is not amnesty.
Again, this wouldn't even be a topic if Trump hadn't made an issue of it.
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