Why Donald Trump is Bad for the Republican Party

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    Trump digresses onto how much he hates when stores say "Happy Holidays," promises that they will say "Merry Christmas" under his presidency.

    Great. More of that famous commitment to limited government and free speech.
     

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    Trump digresses onto how much he hates when stores say "Happy Holidays," promises that they will say "Merry Christmas" under his presidency.

    Great. More of that famous commitment to limited government and free speech.


    "Christmas" has been banished under the currant admin because of the PC that it offends some small percentage of morons.

    Why do you hate free speech again? :dunno:
     

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    "Christmas" has been banished under the currant admin because of the PC that it offends some small percentage of morons.

    Why do you hate free speech again? :dunno:

    "Happy Holidays" came before Obama. I prefer "Merry Christmas", but Trump sounding like he can dictate language is my primary point.
     

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    "Happy Holidays" came before Obama. I prefer "Merry Christmas", but Trump sounding like he can dictate language is my primary point.

    I'm not certain why we can't accept hyperbole for what it is and move on. We all know - or should know - that politicians make promises they can't or won't keep. Trump is no different in that respect, but he IS pushing the Republicans political agenda away from business as usual. I hope he fades away in a few months, but even if he is nominated/elected, all he needs to do is get the right people in the right Cabinet positions and advisory posts to have a very successful Presidency. Stop looking for "perfect" when "better than outright Socialism" will do.
     

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    I'm not certain why we can't accept hyperbole for what it is and move on. We all know - or should know - that politicians make promises they can't or won't keep. Trump is no different in that respect, but he IS pushing the Republicans political agenda away from business as usual. I hope he fades away in a few months, but even if he is nominated/elected, all he needs to do is get the right people in the right Cabinet positions and advisory posts to have a very successful Presidency. Stop looking for "perfect" when "better than outright Socialism" will do.

    I guess one of my biggest concerns is that Trump suffers from several mental delusions. Is he saying all this to convince people he could actually do the things he's promising, or does he actually believe he can do it? Even if it is the former, he shows a severe lack of the social awareness that most people will understand that he can't possibly be "so wonderful" as he promises. If the latter, he is clearly delusional. To me, both circumstances make him unfit to be POTUS.

    That said, I don't see anyone on the Democratic side, delusional or not, that I could vote for either. We need to stop this train of social nonsense, and every candidate the Dems are putting up just want to further it. I really don't want a Trump presidency and I won't vote for Trump in the primaries--not that Indiana primaries are all that meaningful anyway. But if Republicans somehow manage to pick him in all his delusions, I would probably vote for Trump over any Democrat. I mean, the nation is already ****ed up anyway, and will become even more ****ed up with any Democrat, so I guess I'd rather go with an unknown future that could possibly be turned or slowed, than vote for a sure hastening of ****edness.
     

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    Donald Trump: Replace Obamacare with Universal Health Care

    Tonight, Donald Trump reaffirmed that he is economically socialist. He said on 60 Minutes said that he wants to "repeal and replace" Obamacare -- and institute universal health care.

    "Who's going to pay for it?" 60 Minutes host Scott Pelley inquired.

    "The government is going to pay for it!" Trump assured.

    [video=youtube;TPJfKdp3bDs]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPJfKdp3bDs[/video]

    Trump has been on record supporting socialized medicine since at least 2000. In his book, "The America We Deserve," he wrote that "I’m a conservative on most issues but a liberal on health...We must have universal healthcare." He is also on record praising his friend Hillary Clinton's efforts toward federal-run health care and helped her launch her U.S. Senate career. The topic with Trump came up recently during the first GOP presidential debate (FOX News, August 6, 2015), where he applauded how “great” government health care works in Scotland and Canada.

    Trump is demonstrating that Karl Marx could join the modern GOP and be quite popular.
     

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    Tonight, Donald Trump reaffirmed that he is economically socialist. He said on 60 Minutes said that he wants to "repeal and replace" Obamacare -- and institute universal health care.

    "Who's going to pay for it?" 60 Minutes host Scott Pelley inquired.

    "The government is going to pay for it!" Trump assured.

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    Trump has been on record supporting socialized medicine since at least 2000. In his book, "The America We Deserve," he wrote that "I’m a conservative on most issues but a liberal on health...We must have universal healthcare." He is also on record praising his friend Hillary Clinton's efforts toward federal-run health care and helped her launch her U.S. Senate career. The topic with Trump came up recently during the first GOP presidential debate (FOX News, August 6, 2015), where he applauded how “great” government health care works in Scotland and Canada.

    Trump is demonstrating that Karl Marx could join the modern GOP and be quite popular.

    I have to disagree with the last statement. It's a digging MRJ kind of sound bite, but like any of those, it goes pretty far beyond the reality of what the Republican party has become.

    ETA: After watching the video, it's not exactly a single payer system, as was implied, but it will probably cost him some votes. I hope.
     
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    Tonight, Donald Trump reaffirmed that he is economically socialist. He said on 60 Minutes said that he wants to "repeal and replace" Obamacare -- and institute universal health care.

    "Who's going to pay for it?" 60 Minutes host Scott Pelley inquired.

    "The government is going to pay for it!" Trump assured.

    [video=youtube;TPJfKdp3bDs]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPJfKdp3bDs[/video]

    Trump has been on record supporting socialized medicine since at least 2000. In his book, "The America We Deserve," he wrote that "I’m a conservative on most issues but a liberal on health...We must have universal healthcare." He is also on record praising his friend Hillary Clinton's efforts toward federal-run health care and helped her launch her U.S. Senate career. The topic with Trump came up recently during the first GOP presidential debate (FOX News, August 6, 2015), where he applauded how “great” government health care works in Scotland and Canada.

    Trump is demonstrating that Karl Marx could join the modern GOP and be quite popular.

    Like all socialists, Donald thinks the status quo is static. I think he thinks it's a given, that people that have plans now will have them once they start giving away healthcare to those that don't. Why would a company keep paying for healthcare, as part of your compensation, when the government will do it for free?
     

    ArcadiaGP

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    Trump essentially parroting Bernie Sanders, and all the Trumpkins are OK with it.

    If this race comes down to a socialist vs socialist... I'm out.

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    What happened to FairTax? I thought he was a proponent of that. Or did he just steal the title?

    Once all those people he's taking off the tax roles figure out they will no longer get their Earned Income Tax Credits, the cheers will die down pretty quickly. :D
     
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