That's good. The Republican Party needed a shake-up and a reformulation. I have no idea why anyone mourns what's happening. Trump just announced last night that he will push for, at the federal level, affordable child care in the US. And, he was cheered at the GOP convention. Peter Thiel announced that he was proud to be gay and a Republican -- and drew a standing ovation -- at the Republican convention. Trump favors trans rights, gay rights, same sex marriage, and equal opportunity for women and minorities. He favors tariffs on goods imported from countries with substandard regulation and wages -- something most everyone on the left supports when it is someone other than Trump saying it. He also opposes foreign wars and entanglements, something the left also supports when it's not Trump saying it (weirdly, the left seems to support foreign military ventures, drone bombing s at the discretion of the President, and undeclared wars, when it's Obama or Hillary who pitch them...). He takes China to task for currency manipulation and stealing intellectual property -- accusations which were made by the Obama Administration too -- only, Trump announces a new approach to dealing with the problem (nobody denies the problem exists, and he doesn't propose to solve it via "free trade"). Now, for some reason, people who would normally be opposed to "free trade" are all for it, because Hillary Clinton is a free trader. She's a neoconservative in liberal clothing.Animavore wrote:Look, the Republican party is tearing itself apart. It's game over for them. Stop fretting about Trump and some mythical, possible win. He's gone.
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The only things really "right wing" he says are (a) reduce taxes, and (b) stem the tide of illegal immigration.
At the convention, Trump mentioned God about "zero" times in his speech. He did not moralize. He did not talk about culture wars. He did say that inner city children have just as much right to health care and opportunities as everyone else, and he bemoaned the over 50% unemployment in black communities in the US (which, obviously,the Democrats have been unable to fix or even begin fixing).
