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Anti Trump FReepers keep using the same tired argument that Trump is really a liberal Democrat, so a win is really a loss.

It just doesn’t make any sense to me - if he is so liberal why would he bother to fight through 17 Republican candidates, lying the whole time to try to prove he’s conservative enough to be the Republican nominee, only to face a real Democrat, who will use all his conservative talking points against him in the general election?

If he’s that liberal, wouldn’t it be a lot easier and simpler just to run as a Democrat in the first place?

I agree with JR that he ‘sounds conservative to me’, a late bloomer to be sure, and he’s still got some wrinkles to iron out. There can be found inconsistencies in his past statements (as a non-politician) and I sometimes cringe and wish he had said one thing instead of another - often he fixes it soon thereafter. But most of his stated positions are pretty darn conservative.

And there’s another thing - he has the sense not to fall for leftist traps that true conservatives so easily fall for. For example he says get rid of Obamacare, let the markets compete across state lines, etc. - but then he adds that he won’t let the poor dying in the street, that the government will take care of these people. All the ‘true conservatives’ say horrors! single payer!, no different than Obamacare! So, because he’s smart enough to avoid liberal traps, and kind hearted enough to help people who are suffering (which real conservatives should want to do as well IMHO), he is accused of being a liberal. Sometimes I think conservatives are trying to lose.

Anyway, I do not think he is a liberal - not even close. I hope others will open their minds to the possibility that Trump is actually OK and a whole Hell of a lot better than either of the Rats running on the other side.

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And there’s another thing - he has the sense not to fall for leftist traps that true conservatives so easily fall for. For example he says get rid of Obamacare, let the markets compete across state lines, etc. - but then he adds that he won’t let the poor dying in the street, that the government will take care of these people. All the ‘true conservatives’ say horrors! single payer!, no different than Obamacare! So, because he’s smart enough to avoid liberal traps, and kind hearted enough to help people who are suffering (which real conservatives should want to do as well IMHO), he is accused of being a liberal. Sometimes I think conservatives are trying to lose.

Exactly. You just KNOW that if a Republican is against Obamacare that the Democrat will say "You don't care if people get sick and die." Trump saw that, recognized it and completely shuts down this argument before it's even made.