bogarde73 wrote on Feb 26
th, 2016 at 2:37pm:
There are two reasons primarily why the RNC have been opposed to the Trump candidacy:
1. They didn't pick him, he picked himself. Ergo they don't own him as they own the other candidates such as Rubio.
Above all the person who goes forward for the GOP as a White House candidate must, in their eyes, be one of them. Trump is a rogue.
This sounds somewhat off-key for some reason
.
To my community,
rogue would hardly describe Trump. Indeed, the word is used to describe the Republican Party and,by extension, the RNC.
Trump is seen as a messenger to return the aforementioned
rogue organizations to their Conservative roots.
bogarde73 wrote on Feb 26
th, 2016 at 2:37pm:
2. They are not sure that he is really a conservative. They are deadly afraid that if he gets there he might turn out to be too moderate for their taste and have ideas way beyond their thinking. Like doing business with Putin. Like letting the Mid East go to hell unless it messes with the US. Like undoing some of the trade treaties.
Again, this frame of context is alien to me.
The dissonance can probably be explained by the two factions which call themselves Conservatives:
Paleo-Conservatives and Neo-Conservatives.
One point of schism occurred when a man named Barry Goldwater won the Republican nomination back in 1964.
To make a long story short, there is nothing in Conservatism (Paleo-Conservatism, which Trump espouses) to gainsay "Isolationism" or "Protectionism", let alone dealing with countries without representative government (although this does not describe Russia).
Progressives and Neo-Conservatives (former Progressives who joined the Republican Party) advocate Open Borders where goods and people flow freely. Both are married to "Internationalism", "Post-Nationalism", "World Government", etc. This ideology gave us the 1965 Immigration and Naturalization Act which was passed shortly after Goldwater, and has done debilitating damage to American culture by surrendering to foreign invasion.
Before that, we had always kept watch over our borders and documented immigrants rigorously, from mental acuity to health check-ups right down to religious and genealogical histories.
If they didn't pass muster, they were sent home.
Trade goods were similarly inspected with a fine-tooth comb. After all, Trade and Immigration are two sides of the same coin; both pass through an open border and both would be slowed by enforcement.
This is why Cruz's TPP approval was so damaging - it proved he was never serious about Immigration, let alone Trade.
There is more to this history of course,
but that will suffice.
As stated earlier, Trump's ascension is good for America in the long run, but is not necessarily good for Aussies in the short run and maybe not even the long run.
The point is that guarding the borders, restrictive immigration and trade, whilst allying with any country which serves America's defensive network - regardless of their lack of representation - has never been inconsistent with "Conservatism".
Quite the opposite.
That's why Trump has such a following - in part because Neo-Conservatives profess an ideology that is not Conservative at all.
bogarde73 wrote on Feb 26
th, 2016 at 2:37pm:
So they are in there with the likes of Murdoch pushing anti-Trump stories day after day, headlines come poring out like a sewer outlet.
But the dopes don't understand that the more they do this, the people aren't stupid, they see it for what it is, and it just stirs them up more and reinforces their determination to vote for him.
Whenever I look at my messages, there are always links involving someone losing their marbles over Trump.
At first, it was amusing because a large part Trump's value regards his foils who can't help but expose themselves.
Trump is a litmus test.
But it's inevitably gotten pernicious too. Today, my messages contained one from a colleague in which a school administration censured their students for chanting "Trump" at a basketball game, claiming that Trump's name was de-facto racist to say.
These reprobates have always been a daily annoyance in life, but they always get more mendacious when national elections approach.
And my community is apparently no exception when having to deal with these reprobates.
A couple of months ago, an environmental activist was caught defacing Trump signs by drawing swastikas with black marker in my brother's neighborhood. Of course, nobody knew who it was at the time. The local lefties went into a tirade that this was the work of Trump's White supremacist followers.
Huh?
They're <b>still</b> going on about it even though the lefty perpetrator was charged with criminal mischief. Unfortunately, the judge let him plead it down with no jail time and that's ticked off the entire county
.
The best you can say, I guess, is that these outrageous "political activists" are some of the best campaign endorsements for Trump, hands down.
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