News Flash: Trump is a populist, not a conservative.
But he is “conservative” where it matters. Judges, immigration, America first.
>>News Flash: Trump is a populist, not a conservative.
He is a nationalist. There is no small government solution to health care at this point in time.
A 20 year old man who isn’t college material can’t find a good paying job with benefits. Most “free market” solutions I’ve see here require people to live without health care for a couple years while some laws get passed to require that all patients pay the same prices and laws to insure that all prices are posted, etc. Then they count on anti-trust laws being brought into play to prevent price-fixing and other collusion. Meanwhile real people are dying or going into bankruptcy to pay for insulin and such.
He has discovered that a president can’t just turn off the switch on something like health care and count on everyone doing the right thing and doing it right now.
26 posts before someone gets it. Thank you.
“News Flash: Trump is a populist, not a conservative.”
Absolutely correct.
If there’s one thing that populist voters like, it’s a politician’s promises of free stuff. And, obviously, there are a lot of voters, real voters, who respond to a populist politician. That’s why we got “free” compulsory government schooling, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, the NEA, the NEH, PBS, crop subsidies, politically engineered defense spending, etc., etc. It’s also why we got a national debt that cannot be repaid and a population of people who utterly depend upon government handouts.
Such programs never die, but continually expand. ObamaCare is no exception. Unless the swamp gets drained, the next step will be single payer.
He’s not even a ‘populist’.