https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/06/trump-fights-the-last-war/
The president reasons:
“Based on decisions being rendered now, this list is more important
than ever before (Second Amendment, Right to Life, Religious Liberty,
etc.).” Lest we miss the characteristically Trumpian subtlety, he adds,
“VOTE 2020!”
If you needed a laugh to get you through
just-another-day-at-the-Apocalypse, our “Conservative” president then
proceeded to post no fewer than 21 tweets describing the combined
hundreds of millions of dollars in infrastructure spending he plans to
shovel out to states he hopes to win in November.
By the way, with Trump in the White House and the McConnell-led
Republican Senate having slyly buried periodic public debates over the
debt limit, the nation is now over $26 trillion in the red. If you’re
keeping score, that’s an increase of over $6 trillion since January 20,
2017. Obama spending was unprecedented, but Trump is on pace to exceed
it. And don’t tell me about the unforeseen coronavirus crisis; debt was
already accumulating mountainously before the lockdown, and the
president keeps saying more infrastructure spending is imperative — it
may be the only thing he and congressional Democrats can agree on.
The point being that the president is not a conservative, in the
sense either of political ideology or temperament. He has some
conservative sensibilities and has mastered some right-wing tropes. But
he’s not a conservative thinker wedded to a conservative policy agenda.
That’s hardly a revelation. He’s not wired to think in those terms. He’s
not a progressive, either.
There's no chidush here. Trump has been both a registered Republican and Democrat. He is not a liberal. He is not an conservative. He is an opportunist, always looking for what's best for him and willing to compromise any positions to get that.
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