Trump then or reformed trump? The trump who has supported gun control, the AWB, obamacare, using eminent domain to take a widow's home for a limo parking lot, poured money into the campaign coffers of the very people he now seeks to defeat, and using bankruptcy protections to keep himself rich while his businesses fail....or the trump now that tries to line himself up as the supporter of the little man, 2nd amendment, and constitution?
I don't trust him. Period. I don't believe him. Period. The man suddenly has shifted positions in the last 4-5 years, and he did so because it is expedient to his end goal. More power and a legacy, a bust and a portrait in the white house.
He is not anti-establishment. He has supported and held up the very system he rails against today.
Stipulating every last word you write is true (and I am sure of 50%+ of what you write is correct, no dithering), how does that make him any less trustworthy than any other candidate for POTUS from either major party? To include "I support increasing H1B visas 500%--er--I mean I mean we need to ELIMINATE H1B visas!" Ted Cruz.
Heck, I only think there is a 10% chance Trump will do anything useful(1) or in accordance with his policies. That is enough to get me up off the couch and vote. I won't make the argument that is enough for all folk, but it is the best odds we've got, considering the alternatives. Welcome to
The Decline of Western Civilization: Dark Age Dawning.
Red: the blood of angry men!
Black: the dark of ages past!
Red: a world about to dawn!
Black: the night that ends at last!
Red: the blood of angry men!
Black: the dark ages at last!
Red: a world about to drown!
Black: the night that comes at last!
(1) Damage to GOP and Democrat parties, their donors, and all in the ruling class qualifies in my book.
I didn't vote for McCain or Romney. I only voted for GW once, and voted L in 2004.
Piker. I coyote voted in 2004 and 2008. In 2012 I had no more coyote votes to give. You got one more arm to chew off for your country. Because if you don't vote for someone you despise a little less than the others on the ballot the terrorists have already won.
Can we please stop using that word? It was bad enough when it meant "Republican I disagree with." Now it means - what?
I feel your pain.
I originally used it only for the trotskyite Jews who got mugged by history and began to oppose communism in the late 20th century and then infiltrated both conservatism and the GOP. I'd get cranky when someone would call a gentile a neo-con.
Thing is, they infiltrated conservatism as entryists and then managed to stomp out almost all of old-school American-focused conservatism. So sometime after Reagan's election, conservative ~ neoconservative. Jeane Kirkpatrick is an early example, but you can see the strain run brightly through GWB and the current neo-con sort, no matter if jew or gentile. I guess you could call them, "rootless self-serving globalist corporatists" but that is not as pithy as neo-con.
I am not yet ready to spread the term even farther to include folk who never claimed to be conservative.
