I know you are a supporter of Trump.
The truth is he is just as big a statist as Sanders.
They both see government as the solution, in their minds the right guy just hasn't instituted the right program(s).
Trump is a nationalist and seems to love the old America, that's great. He's still a big government type of guy. He's not going to dismantle our crony capitalist nascent fascist state. If anything under Trump it will get an injection of steroids and growth hormones. He will embrace the Obama doctrine of ruling by executive order. Everything I've learned about Trump points to every move the man makes is about getting HIM a better deal. I'm not confident my interests intersect enough with his enough to make it worth the risk of having him at the helm. His view of the utility of the state is not unlike Sanders, they have different goals but both crave to wield the coercive power of the state.
Sanders is just an old fashioned socialist. His popularity stems from the thorough brainwashing that the public education system has done on the population.
Neither one of them are champions of individual liberty and both look at the laws protecting liberty as obstacles in their path.
Meh, you are seeing what you want to see. Like the global warmists and 'deniers.' In truth, there is not enough hard data to make a solid determination on Trump and what data there is has been tainted by one side or the other.
To call Trump as big a statist as Bernie Sanders, OTOH, disregards the hard data we
do have. Bernie has been red since the cradle and active in red politics since college. Even his sanitized bio shows him as nothing more than a red activist and then a red policritter with zero time in the private sector. There is none of this sort of mess in Trump's background, that's a fact.
Trump seems to be a pragmatic(1) businessman in an environment where political connection and influence is as important as the purely economic/business bits of a deal/proposition. So, he comes off as chummy with NYS and NYC policritters because that is the water in which he swims. Were he to have been born in Texas or someplace less corrupt, he might have turned into a Ross Perot or T Boone Pickens-like figure. Or maybe he would be as chummy with Texas policritters. Trump does not seem a crony capitalist or corporatist, though. He is a do-er, not a hanger-on.
Trump is surely no doctrinaire an-cap liberutopitairan. Heck, I do not think Trump gives a fraction of a damn about ideology. He does what he needs to on the way to his objectives. If that means big, fat checks to NYC & DC politicos, so be it.
In my eyes, Trump's administration would be no worse than any other likely candidate and better than most. Dems are lost to Western Civ and decency. The GOP is not much better. They may talk liberty & small gov't, but their actions show us that is all lies.
OTOH, Trump has already done a great deal of good:
1. Moved the conversation on immigration in a nationalist direction.
2. Discredited much of the MSM, to include Fox.
3. Discredited the GOPe.
4. Turned ÃJeb! into chum.
5. Displayed open contempt for PC and the like.
6. In general, push a nationalistic message.
7. Slapped the Clintons silly.
I doubt Trump will deliver in full on any of his promises. Delivering partly on them would be an improvement.
As for running with BHO's precedents on the use of executive power, that horse is out of the barn. The only question is do more decent/patriotic folk unilaterally disarm and not use them to push a nationalist agenda or not? Becasue hte Dems will use them when in office. In truth, the COTUS and the rule of law is dead in this polity. Might makes right these days.
In the end, perhaps the best we can hope for in a Trump administration is a gutting of the GOPe and a massive disruption of the two-party system. The GOP is looking awfully Whiggish in hte face and may need a permanent vacation. Perhaps construct a new Jacksonian Party with socons and working class folks making up the bulk and willing to --literally--fight it out with the Left.
(1) Not necessarily a compliment.
