Donald Trump And Conservatives

Businessman and reality show star, Donald Trump is leading in most polls in the Republican primary and he gets endless media coverage.  Many conservatives including the Tea Party and evangelicals are supporting him.  After all Trump will take care of America's enemies, fix the economy, stop illegal immigration, and make America great again.  Some people have even compared Donald Trump to Ronald Reagan.  

In reality Donald Trump is no conservative.  He is actually a populist and a statist.   Even many prominent conservatives have come out against Trump.  He supports government run health care, opposes entitlement reform, and will increase taxes and regulations.  Trump has even donated money to people like Hillary Clinton, Harry Reid, and Nancy Pelosi.  Trump says he was just playing the political game.   It sounds like Trump was buying favoritism for himself.  It seems Trump is actually part of the broken political system he rails against.  Trump is the problem, not the solution.  

Donald Trump seems to have little regard for the Constitution (Does this remind you of anyone else?).  He promises to do all kinds of things regardless of whether they are constitutional or not.  Conservatives have been outraged over Barack Obama bypassing Congress with executive orders.  Yet they embrace Trump when he promises to do the same sort of thing.  No constitutional, conservative can support Donald Trump.  

The comparison of Donald Trump to Ronald Reagan is absurd.  Look at Reagan in the 1960's and 1970's and then look at Trump over the last couple of decades.  Reagan was conservative and Trump is liberal.  The comparison of Trump to Reagan shows great disrespect to the legacy of Ronald Reagan.  Donald Trump you are no Ronald Reagan!  

Many in the Tea Party are supporting Donald Trump.  Tea Party favorite, Sarah Palin has endorsed Trump.  You have one celebrity endorsing another celebrity.  Palin saw an opportunity and hopped aboard the Trump train.  The Tea Party has opposed political authoritarianism yet many of it's members have embraced the authoritarian, Donald Trump.  They vehemently opposed Obamacare, yet they support Trump who favors a single payer healthcare system.   The Tea Party talks of it's love for the liberty and limited government promoted by the Founding Fathers.  Yet it seems ready to bring in the reign of King Donald.  Trump is not a conservative and is definitely not a libertarian.  Much of the Tea Party has sold out.  

Donald Trump also has support from many evangelicals.  Recently at Liberty University, Trump read from Two Corinthians. "The Donald" continues to demonstrate his ignorance of all things Biblical.  Previously Trump has admitted that he has never asked for forgiveness, could not name a favorite Bible verse, and expressed his great admiration for Norman Vincent Peale (a liberal clergyman).  Never mind his support of abortion (including partial birth abortion) and homosexuality.  Never mind that he operates casinos.  Never mind that he is arrogant, self centered, and profane.  Evangelicals supporting Trump are simply divorced from reality.  

Donald Trump also has no foreign policy experience.  He has little knowledge in this area and has said that he gets his information from Sunday talk shows.  Does anybody think that operating casinos qualifies one to be Commander-In-Chief?  

Trump is full of empty promises.  Does anyone really think that he will build a wall on the Mexican border and have the Mexicans pay for it?  Donald Trump is nothing more than a populist, demagogue who stirs up trouble and tells people what they want to hear.  

Conservatives supporting Donald Trump have abandoned their principles.  One wonders if these people ever held to a conservative political philosophy to begin with.  How could they support a liberal, populist, statist?  Support for Trump is based on emotion and not on reason.  Trump recently remarked that he could shoot someone and would not lose a vote.  The scary thing is that this statement may actually be true.  No constitutional, conservative can support Donald Trump.  Conservatives, wake up!