Trump Isn't A Conservative! Why is That So Hard To Get?

By Rich Kozlovich

 

As so many have pointed out over and over again - he's not been a conservative for all of his life.  When others were fighting the battles he was declaring bankruptcy for some of his business enterprises.  He claims he's personally never claimed bankruptcy, but does that really matter to all the people his business enterprises stuck for untold amounts of money. 

 

He currently holds positions that are antithetical to conservative's goals and has done so all of his life, including abortion.  Whatever he says now is meaningless since it's all a big show to him.  As a perpetual candidate he never in his life dreamed he would get this far and now thinks he can actually get the nomination and actually be President of the United States. 

 

And why does he think the nation should choose him?  Because he knows how to make deals.  What kind of deals, with whom, for what and to whose benefit he doesn't explain.  Remember some of those great deals he made went bankrupt - I think four times.  So.....is that really why the nation should pick Trump?  National Review ran this symposium article outlining what 22 people who have been part of the real conservative movement think about about Trump. 

I've listed them alphabetically.

 

Glenn Beck, David Boaz, L. Brent Bozel III, Mona Charen, Ben Domenech, Erick Erickson, Steven F. Hayward, Mark Helprin, William Kristol, Yuval Levin, Dana Loesch, Andrew C. McCarthy, David McIntosh, Michael Medved, Edwin Meese III, Russel Moore, Michael B. McKasey, Kate Pavlich, John Podhoretz, R.R. Reno, Thomas Sowell, Cal Thomas. 

 

I've reproduced Thomas Sowell's comments since I think he's among the finest thinkers in the nation today. 

 

THOMAS SOWELL In a country with more than 300 million people, it is remarkable how obsessed the media have become with just one—Donald Trump. What is even more remarkable is that, after seven years of repeated disasters, both domestically and internationally, under a glib egomaniac in the White House, so many potential voters are turning to another glib egomaniac to be his successor.

No doubt much of the stampede of Republican voters toward Mr. Trump is based on their disgust with the Republican establishment. It is easy to understand why there would be pent-up resentments among Republican voters. But are elections held for the purpose of venting emotions? No national leader ever aroused more fervent emotions than Adolf Hitler did in the 1930s. Watch some old newsreels of German crowds delirious with joy at the sight of him. The only things at all comparable in more recent times were the ecstatic crowds that greeted Barack Obama when he burst upon the political scene in 2008.

Elections, however, have far more lasting and far more serious—or even grim—consequences than emotional venting. The actual track record of crowd pleasers, whether Juan Perón in Argentina, Obama in America, or Hitler in Germany, is very sobering, if not painfully depressing. After the disastrous nuclear deal with Iran, we are entering an era when people alive at this moment may live to see a day when American cities are left in radioactive ruins.

We need all the wisdom, courage, and dedication in the next president — and his or her successors — to save us and our children from such a catastrophe. A shoot-from-the-hip, bombastic showoff is the last thing we need or can afford. — Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.  

Trump isn't a conservative nor is he a liberal.  He's an opportunist with no solid philosophical moral foundation.