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Trump’s Questionable Political History
January 13th, 2016
It is hard not to feel protective over Donald Trump while the political classes are seething and scornful.
They are unacquainted with such powerlessness. Control was never supposed to stray this far from their grasp. And their rage, manifested in every hapless attack on Trump and his supporters, actually seems to be improving the likelihood of that outcome they fear most of all.
How tempting, under these circumstances, to rush to his defense, as so many in the conservative movement have already done. The Donald has boldly made himself a standard bearer of unpopular (…within the political bubble), yet critical policy positions concerning national security, from the urgency of immigration enforcement to the potential implications of refugee resettlement...
But the fact that the D.C. establishment is fighting Trump’s current rhetoric from the left obscures a more important discussion of whether Trump is truly the man they perceive him to be. Whether he really is the mortal enemy of the political correctness leviathan and the ultimate outsider who is not sucked in by the elitist groupthink. It also obscures some of Trump’s own attacks on conservatives… from the left.
Here are some of the issues that are important to clarify before Trump is anointed as the presumptive nominee:
Immigration
...But is this really who Trump is on immigration and is this what to expect from a President Trump or even presidential nominee Trump?
We are not talking about positions he has taken years ago before he became a Republican. In 2013, conservatives were fighting for dear life to oppose open borders, while Trump was not only supporting the Dream Act, but echoing the liberal politically correct talking points behind it.
In August of 2013, he reportedly told a group of illegal aliens, “You have convinced me” of the need to pass the Dream Act.
This was not a one off. Even after announcing his presidential bid, Trump continued to promote the false talking points about our responsibility to do something for the countries and families that violated our sovereignty:...
Syrian Refugees
Syrian refugees: “I hate the concept of it, but on a humanitarian basis of what’s happening, you have to.” Just a day later he partially reversed course:
I think we should help, but I think we should be very careful because frankly, we have very big problems. We're not gonna have a country if we don't start getting smart.
Then he went on to promote a ban on Muslim immigration. This proposal set off an imbroglio within the political world that completely washed away the fact that Trump’s first thoughts were to follow the groupthink...
Mitch McConnell
In one of the biggest ironies of this political cycle, Trump has long praised Mitch McConnell, the man who is the embodiment of why people are fed up with the party and attracted to Trump in the first place.
While conservatives were fighting to get rid of McConnell in the 2014 primaries, Trump said, "It would be a shame if he didn't win, because he has such power, it's so good for his state."
It comes as no surprise, then, that late last year Trump criticized Cruz for acting like a “maniac” when he called McConnell a liar...
Judicial Tyranny
The courts they are not only governed by political correctness, they enshrine political correctness into our Constitution and threaten our existence as a democratic republic based upon representative government. Yet, Trump has often been ambivalent when discussing the courts. Kim Davis being thrown in jail by a lawless federal court was a watershed event in American history for religious liberty. It was also a defining moment for the candidates. Trump said the following on September 8, while Davis was sitting in jail for being a Christian:
We had a ruling from the Supreme Court and we are a country of laws and you have to do what the Supreme Court ultimately, whether you like the decision or not, and it was a 5-4 decision, whether you like the decision or not, you have to go along with the Supreme Court. That’s the way it is.
A few months later, Trump attacked Scalia, saying he was being “very tough” on “that community” for poking legal holes in the arguments for affirmative action for black students. What happened to the man who hates political correctness and the elites?...
Guns
After flooding the country with so many security problems, the next step towards transforming America into a politically correct European socialist utopia is to strip people of their guns. Shouldn’t we expect our nominee to be able to litigate that case against Hillary Clinton?
Yet, there are still some open questions as to where Trump stands on the issue. In his book, The America We Deserve, although Trump eschewed outright bans on guns, he echoed Hillary’s talking points about the need to support common sense restrictions...
Obamacare
While boundless immigration is the tool through which Democrats want to transform our society, Obamacare is the ultimate tool to transform our economy. Republicans lost an election in 2012 by nominating the one man in the world who thought of the Obamacare scheme before Obama did, thereby taking our best issue off the table during the general election. Given Trump’s support for single-payer in the past and the fact that he still has not yet disavowed it, are Republicans prepared to nominate the one man who agrees with it during an election against the woman who originally promoted socialized medicine?
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