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To: monkapotamus
“Trump talks about things that matter to people,” a Republican consultant says. Cruz stressed ideology.”

Trump is a Truman Democrat. By today's standards, that's closer to conservative than anything the GOPe or the Democrats present. Trump's election will be a step in the right direction, in both senses of "right," but Trumanism isn't conservatism by any ideological definition.

As one who supported Cruz precisely because of his ideological stance, I can see that Trump presents to his audiences what they are looking for, someone who is the political equivalent of The Cable Guy: "Make America Great Again" is the national political equivalent of "Git 'R Dun."

He has my support and my vote. It is not like 1933 Germany where the only choices are Hitler and Thalmann, the Nazi and the Marxist: we know the other side will put up a Marxist, and we know the other side will paint Trump as the Nazi, but he is no Nazi. It is just that Trump is no ideological conservative either; that would be Cruz, and the voters did not choose Cruz. Vox populi vox Dei.

20 posted on 05/04/2016 5:21:45 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: chajin

Trump isn’t a complete social conservative, although he holds some positions that are. His fiscal and security positions are conservative.

This election is about our sovereignty and trade. Read security and businesses/jobs. Nothing else matters if those are not nailed down, which they are not.

Of course, we all know this.

I look around at inner cities and young people I see. They don’t know and have not been taught to know much of anything. They are indoctrinated. People’s future is at stake, and they do not see it. They buy the emotional arguments they’ve been taught for a long time and have not learned to think.

Our morals are collapsed. Work toward rectifying them will only come from secure positions in work and in a secured nation.

Trump addresses these head on.

My two cents.


54 posted on 05/04/2016 6:03:34 AM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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