HokieFanDC wrote:
Well, hoofighter is something else, for sure. Not sure why you want to put yourself in the same category as hoof, but if you want to join hands in solidarity with him, go for it!
As for judgment, if you think voting for Trump displays good judgment, you're not one to being throwing stones.
Yeah, that totally puts me in solidarity with Hoof.
As for Trump, you still don't get him...or understand what the problem with our government is which he was elected to fix. Electing folks like McCain and Romney is the same path towards big government that Obama and Hillary are...just in the slow lane. Hell, Romney was just quoted as saying antifa is anti-violence or some nonsense.
Ramping up towards the 2008 election, lefties and libertarians on UWS used to always say that R and D were two sides of the same coin. The comment cut deep because...there was a lot of truth to it. Government was on a glidepath towards ever increasing size, scope, and spending - and it didn't seem like there was any light at the end of the tunnel.
I don't think anyone would argue that Trump has broken that stereotype. In my opinion, he's the only chance we have to change that glidepath (In large part, we have Obama to thank for that). The problem is that there is a "political industrial complex" invested in the status quo. Right now, it's thrashing about doing everything it can to slow him down. Legislatively, it's been pretty effective. Im not sure it will slow down until after the mid terms.
2016 was about more than electing a personality, though. It wasn't R vs. D (hence why he picked up a lot of blue states), it was cultural. Globalism vs. Nationalism. Whether we follow the path of Western European countries, or forge our own. For or against political correctness, victim hood, and all that crap.
You see Trump as a bull in a China shop. I do too. The difference is that I want him to break every goddamn thing in that China shop, whereas you're interested in preserving it. If that's "conservatism", I don't want anything to do with it.