By Rick Jensen
National Review magazine’s “Conservatives Against Trump†issue is this election year’s boldest collection of thoughtful columns articulating what some of us have considered for quite awhile to be Trump’s big, phony political adventure.
It is quite a relief for those of us who have recognized “The Donald†early on as an authoritarian liberal choosing to identify as a conservative for political gain that others recognize this fact.
Among the 21 conservatives and one libertarian invited to participate, certain themes converged.
Trump has always been a liberal. He supports partial birth abortion. He enthusiastically supported President Obama’s failed “stimulus†scheme and “cash for clunkers†as serious policy.
Obama himself chortled at wasting hundreds of billions of taxpayers’ hard-earned dollars, joking, “I guess ‘shovel ready’ was not as ‘shovel ready’ as we expected.â€
Upon hearing Obama utter these words, fellow travelers at the meeting of his ironically named “Council on Jobs and Competitiveness†fell into laughter as though on cue in some demented comedy.
The United States does not need another eight years of such “comedy.â€
The National Review writers converged separately upon Trump’s eagerness to violate Constitutional restraint on eminent domain, his ignorance of powerful players leading international terrorist organizations, his enthusiasm for engaging in an unwinnable tariff war with China and the uber-liberal concept that the government “can take over companies, and, frankly, take big chunks of companies.â€Donald Trump believes in bigger government having more control over your life and would expand the power of the executive branch, exercising more executive orders, actions and Presidential memoranda to push through his desires as has Barack Obama.
Donald Trump has often pontificated on his love for single payer health insurance, quoted in the Review by Erick Erickson as, “…I’m going to take care of everybody. . . . The government’s gonna pay for it.â€That sentence is more appropriate to a Bernie Sanders running-mate than a leading candidate for the Republican Party nomination.
He is being seen at last by more and more observers as a phony, spewing populist slogans and hurling meaningless insults, like saying, “No one likes Ted Cruz.â€
Unrelated stories in various publications are now quoting establishment Republicans saying they prefer Donald Trump over Cruz because Trump is more malleable. His lack of political experience is greatly exceeded by his lack of political leadership and these Washington, D.C. “insiders†believe they can bend Trump to their desires.
They probably can.
These “insiders†are lobbyists and consultants who make a living convincing Republicans to do the bidding of their clients and Democrats.
They believe Trump will need them to help him make policy decisions just as establishment Republicans like John Boehner needed them.
He will.
Ted Cruz is not so malleable.
Trump has recently demonstrated his willingness to “make a deal†that serves him better than the people he supposedly wishes to lead.
In Iowa, Trump doubled down on ethanol mandates, a bloated, failed crony government scheme that has been rejected by conservatives en masse, recognizing its grand economic failure.
Why?
Because his leading rival, Ted Cruz, garnered enthusiastic applause and genuine respect from Iowans when he publicly maintained his honest position against the wasted billions of dollars in ethanol mandates at last year’s Iowa Ag Summit.
Then, Iowa’s Republican Governor spoke out against Cruz, calling for him to be defeated.
Trump leapt at the opportunity to pander to caucusing Iowans, saying the federal government needs to spend even more money it can extract from taxpayers on the failing ethanol program, filling the pockets of Iowa political activists who he hopes will encourage fellow Iowans to vote for him.
This is the real Trump: the pandering populist political performer.
I now have a request for the editors at The National Review.
Will they please repeat this winning format featuring the scandalous and criminal behaviors of Hillary Clinton?
The cartoon is spot-on, but he article is just more right-wing bitterness. Does Jensen think Trump supporters read the Atlantic? If a few of them try, I doubt they can comprehend it.
The Donald knows that his people must be spoken to on a third grade level, so he says everything three times.
People like Rick Jensen and The Stamper aren’t real conservatives, they are simply selfish little fools. They write for free and manage to not be worth the price. With some grunting and effort Jensen has extruded 25 meaningless little ‘paragraphs’, a world record, and didn’t say a thing. As Rump would howl, ‘he’s a nasty little man’.
I noticed that too…new sentence? New paragraph!
Don’t they all pander? Do Hillary voters believe that a liar is not lieing to them? Are Sander’s so mathematically challenged that they can not grasp that his “vote for me and get it free” is a mathematical impossibility? But then I’m just a third grader. Thanks God they used a picture of Trump dressed like a Nazi so I could get the point. Otherwise I would have thought that out of the three dismal choices we are currently offered that Trump was the only one who has actually built something. It would be nice to have better choices, but it looks like this is it. Oh, I call Goodwin’s Law on the picture.
Good call on Goodwin’s law. As far as this…
“Otherwise I would have thought that out of the three dismal choices we are currently offered that Trump was the only one who has actually built something.”
After being started out with a ‘small loan’ of a million dollars from his daddy, Trump managed to coattail on his old man’s success and connections, while also managing to build several bankrupt businesses on his very own. IE, I think you’re probably too smart to confuse the amount of money a person is worth with their business savvy or intelligence.
Well, let’s be clear.
Inheriting some wealth is one thing, but building further, a LOT further, on the size of that wealth…..REQUIRES “business savvy AND intelligence.”
To say Trump has neither, well Delta, you’re contributing foolish commentary.
I don’t like seeing bankruptcy, but is legal. People like Trump do not even think about money like you or I would. To them it’s just a tool to what he builds as a hammer is to your house. My measure of success is not how rich one is but that one leaves what he finds better than he found it. New York is better and people are richer because of Trumpp. I must say that I I watched some stories on him, I was impressed by how his children turned out. They turned out to be good productive people with his work ethic. So while I don’t believe everything his is telling me, he is currently the best choice we have.
Are you admitting to being a “Trumpeter,” as the half-wit, half-term Governor of Alaska would say?
There is one good choice for President on the Democratic side, Bernie Sanders. I guess Kasich wouldn’t do the country much harm. Neither would Hillary, for that matter.
Sander’s “free, free, free,” is a mathematical impossibility. Elect him and the only “Bern” you will feel will be the economy. Of course you can’t address the simple math problem with Bernie when it’s easier to hurls pejoratives and invoke boogeymen.
What I admit to, as if I need to admit anything to you, is that with the three top runners, Clinton, Sanders, or Trump, only Trump has actually shown that he has actually built something. If these are our choices, then I will have to go with Trump over a socialist who will cause and exodus of the rich.
WHAT THIS AUTHOR is saying, indirectly, is that all of the Tea Party blowhards upset at “Obama and the LIBERALS”….who now fawn over Trump……NEVER WERE in fact “conservatives.” They were just a bunch of toothless, ignorant, redneck savages spouting off.
“You liberals and Obama. You are _____________ (fill in the blank).
They even tried to claim the Republican Party had lost it’s way and “had become liberals too.” EVERYONE, including John Boehner and Paul Ryan (even George W. Bush who supported immigration reform)……were f’n liberals! Tea Party animals……Wrapping themselves in the conservative flag.
These Tea Party Trump supporter-buffoons…..turns out….they’re now anything BUT conservative. Whole lotta hate though, that’s the more accurate label.
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