Trump is Republican spinelessness come home to roost. Sure, he's not conservative and is only opportunistically a Republican but the man has spine. Both Republicans and Democrats have been telling the electorate how Amnesty/Path to Citizenship/Legal Status for those who broke the law to get into the country is a must. Trump has thrown the BS Flag and he is suddenly in the lead for the Republican nomination. Gee, you think maybe he has a better handle on the voters than the Washington elites? What is astonishing is that none of the other Republicans has tried to steal some of those voters by taking similar, if more nuanced, positions on illegal immigration. No, it isn't astonishing because they are spineless. Where most Republicans would apologize for having had the temerity to voice such a position and then slink away to obscurity, Trump added an exclamation point by having Jorge Ramos (a pro-illegal immigration propagandist from Univision) kicked out of a news conference. Trump is trying to win over voters, the rest of the Republican field is trying to win over a hostile media. Trump, like Gingrich in 2012, is thrilling primary voters by treating the media thusly. Trump is winning because he fights.
Let's contrast. The voters were clearly upset with Obama in 2010 and the Democrats were 'shellacked' in Obama's words. The Republicans took over the House, the part of the legislature with the power of the purse. Not one dime can be spent unless the House allows it. Obamacare was dead if only they had the spine to not fund it. Nope. No spine. Oh, they claimed that without the Senate, they were powerless. That's not what they said before the 2010 election. Fine. In the 2014 election, the Republicans won the Senate. No change. Now they claim that without the presidency, they can't do anything. Pathetic.
I'm no Trump fan but I wouldn't call him pathetic. I'd bet that if Trump had only one branch of the legislature, he would have accomplished vastly more than the 'professional' politicians. Of course, it might not be anything I want but he wouldn't be offering endless excuses as to why he wasn't delivering what he promised.
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