Quote:I've heard that critique before and i just don't get it. When you look at everything that he is passionate about it has to do with the legitimate roles of government, protecting the citizens, managing the influx of migration and negotiating deals with our international trade partners.


He has said time and time again that regulations are too burdensome and that he wants to implement tax reform to attract business.


He's not out there leading the charge for the EPA to write more regulations about CO2, he's denounced common core etc. etc.


I don't get the accusation that He's going to be some authoritarian. Does he have the constitutional credentials of Ted Cruz? no. s he as Libertarian as Rand Paul? No. But he's still to the right of at least half the republican field and he fundamentally believes that the private sector is the driver of economic growth.

So here's where I've drawn my conclusions from, for starters he's open supported used and advocated the use of eminent domain. Not only for public use but for use by private corporations that's a huge abuse of eminent domain and extremely authoritarian in nature. he openly supports bulk data collection but isn't really clear that he understands what the NSA is doing, non-theless he's never spoken about rolling back authoritarian programs like the NSA, patriot act or the ndaa. He's absolutely progressive on taxes he makes no attempt to talk about tax reform he just wants to change the bracket levels, lipstick on a pig. Hes mentioned being very hawkish in foreing policy, I know that gives most of the GOP a woody but when it boils down the most hawkish of Presidents are usually pretty authoritarian. All this is still ignoring all of his progressive stands in the past, I'm willing to ignore his progressive social policies prior to his campaign. But his authoritarian view that I need government to fix everything from the economy to security is a core conflict with conservatism. Any conservative worth their salt should be able to tell you that government is the obstacle to achieving success not the vehicle to get us there. I guaranteed you trump sees it as the vehicle its how he's made his fortune by his own admintion using government to his gain.

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