A true conservative is conservative in ALL the important areas...fiscal policy, social issues, foreign policy, government regulation, etc., etc. Trump seems to be conservative on trade, and the illegal-immigrant crisis (at least we still have some hope left in those two areas) but everywhere else?... FORGET IT. He just jumped on board the gun-control bandwagon yesterday, for instance.
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But like a clever con man, you need to watch his HANDS not his mouth. While Trump is promising us some "trade deal" with China (which can't possibly do anything--or the Chinese would never approve it--to draw down our trade deficit with them) he is signing off on "red flag" gun seizures with his other hand. While he is still making noises about a wall at the border, two years into his Presidency and money supposedly available, and yet not one foot of new wall has yet been built, and Border Patrol is back to catch and release while we ran one of the biggest monthly budget deficits in history last month.
(Fantasticmagic.com.)
Just have a look:
Here is a key excerpt:
"The U.S. posted its biggest monthly budget deficit on record last month, amid a 20 percent drop in corporate tax revenue and a boost in spending so far this fiscal year. The budget gap widened to $234 billion in February, compared with a fiscal gap of $215.2 billion a year earlier. That gap surpassed the previous monthly record of $231.7 billion set seven years ago, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
February’s shortfall helped push the deficit for the first five months of the government’s fiscal year to $544.2 billion, up almost 40 percent from the same period the previous year, the Treasury Department said in its monthly budget report Friday. The fiscal shortfall is widening following President Donald Trump’s $1.5 trillion tax-cuts package that’s weighing on receipts and raising concerns about the national debt load, which topped a record $22 trillion last month."
In case you lost track of it in the midst of all the populist rhetoric, COLLAPSING THE SYSTEM IS DONE BY EVER-INCREASING BUDGET DEFICITS, and it make ZERO difference if the person doing it is an avowed socialist or a "conservative" ex-reality TV star and lifelong Clinton-buddy and NYC Democrat.
Hello?