Trump: RINO in chief
Donald John Trump's game of charade as he pretends to be a "conservative Republican" has been called out many times by many people and in many forums. So what I am going to provide isn't an exclusive.
He is a Republican In Name Only. Trump is the nation's RINO in chief.
There once was a time when Republicans stood for fiscal responsibility. They railed against budget deficits, no matter their size. The 1980 GOP landslide win for the presidency rested in part on Ronald Reagan's intense criticism of President Carter's $43 billion budget deficit that fiscal year. Forty-three billion bucks wouldn't even get a mention these days!
Trump's big ugly bill runs up deficits in the trillions of dollars. It piles on another $3 trillion to the national debt over the next decade. About the only GOP-friendly policy in the big ugly bill are the tax cuts that benefit the mega-rich. Those cuts come at a cost ... the aforementioned deficits and debt.
Republicans hate Marxist dictators. Trump calls them "smart cookies," says he admires their leadership strength, wishing he had the kind of popular support that they enjoy.
GOP pols normally would rally to the side of a sovereign nation attacked by Russia. Not this RINO in chief, who scolded the Ukrainian president for daring to suggest he could defeat the Russians on the battlefield.
Donald Trump has turned Republican orthodoxy on its ear. Yet he continues to bully GOP members of both congressional chambers into backing his idiotic tariffs, which real Republicans such as George W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford all have said are taxes that result only in inflation.
Donald Trump once admitted that he ran for president as a Republican only because the GOP offered him the easier path to the pinnacle of power. There you have it right there. He cannot articulate a party policy issue because he is too stupid to understand one.
All hail the RINO in chief!