ajax18 wrote:
You didn't think he was going to win. You thought he was the "Herman Caine moment" in the Republican party. I've heard Glenn Beck say Trump isn't a conservative every morning and I'm tired of it. Trump is certainly more conservative than Hillary. The fact that he is so hated by the left should be proof enough that he's serious about what he says on stopping illegal immigration and renegotiating some of our worst trade deals.
He's hated by the right, too. His favorability ratings among self-described "strong" or "very" conservatives are terrible. What does that prove?
So is it Trump's support of universal health care or his desire to build a giant wall on the Mexican border that makes Trump an economic conservative? Or is it his plan to eliminate 19 trillion dollars in debt over 8 years while not cutting Medicare/Medicaid, social security, or defense spending, but cutting taxes through the power of - um - magic that makes him an economic conservative?
Trump's support of protectionism and dismantling our free trade agreements is a leftwing position. It is 1) not conservative economic philosophy and 2) a position common among Democrats and uncommon among Republicans. That you cite it as proof he's going to stick it to liberals is pretty awesome.
Trump has run a campaign on racial and religious scapegoating, and this has you all in a tizzy because you love that sort of thing. Because conservative for you is a word meaning "what I like" rather than a coherent ideological label, you end up declaring Trump the bane of liberals and cite his liberal positions as proof. You don't appear to understand why he's so disliked.