I wonder if any of the folks who trashed Trump for being a Leftist in 2016, would like to come forward now and admit they didn’t have a clue back then?
I don’t know that I "trashed Trump for being a Leftist" in 2016, but as a former NY State resident I was very aware that Trump had a history which did not include anything resembling a normal Republican trajectory - and did not include a “Damascus Road” change, either. So I was not onboard at the beginning, and thought that he would act as a cat’s paw for the Democrats to keep a conservative off the ballot.I gradually realized that Trump was a fighter who would not back down, and that was a weak suit of every one of the other Republican contenders.
The thing that really clinched it was his list of potential SCOTUS nominees. I couldn’t know that he would follow through on that list - but I certainly knew that Hillary would not name that quality of justice. Not by a long shot.
Trump is actually not a Republican, in the conventional sense of the word. In reality he resembles Ross Perot more than any prior Republican POTUS. My main objection to Perot was my assumption that he would split the conservative vote and elect Bill Clinton - which arguably is what happened. Trump, OTOH, conducted a hostile takeover of the Republican Party on his way to defeating Hillary in the general election.
Never happen...Nitwits once clueless, forever clueless...
Good Point!
BOOM!