Yes it was a dark speech. Things are bad but Trump is strong. And his daughter says he's effective. He says he will save us.
Every smart person is saying what I wrote above. I don't need to pile on. I have just one thing to add.
Republicans who liked Reagan and Romney and Ryan need to take stock of the fact that Donald Trump is no Ronald Reagan. If, in fact, Republican voters like Trump and his message then Republican voters pay no attention whatever to the ideology and beliefs of their political philosophy and are in fact simply loyal to the GOP brand. Or, Republican voters have really changed their mind.
Trump-ism is totally different from Pence, Reagan, Romney, and Ryan.
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Trump wants big government. The other guys say they wanted smaller government. Only big government can tell businesses where to place factories, only big government can increase the surveillance and security state, only big government can attempt to destroy ISIS immediately.
Trump is unconcerned with "family value" morality issues. The traditional Republican party has abortion, anti-gay, family values front and center. Trump has not studied the issues deeply enough to handle questions about them. Trump is cosmopolitan and urbane, not small town and cloistered. Trump even stuck in the unnecessary comment about protecting LGBTQ people.
Trump wants to limit immigration. The other guys liked the business-friendly open borders and free trade.
Trump likes the social safety net. The other guys said these entitlements made people weak in character and put the country into deeper debt. Trump likes Medicare, Social Security and according to his daughter he want to expand assistance to new mothers.
Trump is skeptical of a global interventionist foreign policy. The other guys are neoconservatives and want to engage more deeply in the world, arguing that is is the moral thing to do and in our interests. Trump is isolationist.
Trump has done what Democrats could not do: get the Republican Party to reverse its positions on a great many of their core beliefs.
What remains? Pro guns, anti-Hillary, and not shaming white identity politics.
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Trump has been somewhat inconsistent on this issue but I think it's fair to say he does not for the general populace give it to women to control their own fertility. Consistent with his largess in terms of growing government while severely limiting immigration he needs a larger work force for the future.
I agree completely. He evolved on this issue to get himself acceptable to the GOP. Republican orthodoxy requires that government/society controls women's fertility. It is a deeply rooted patriarchal idea.
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