This is one case to go with the "Devil You Don't Know" over the "Devil You Know". At least with Trump you know he may occasionally get something right.
But even more important, who is more likely to get away with their shenanigans with a willing media? Clearly, that's Hillary. Trump will have to fight tooth-and-nail for everything with the hostile press. So at worst, we'll get Gridlock, which is preferable to what you get with Hillary.
If there is going to be any gridlock, the press won't do it. They might gripe and howl, but they don't sign anything, they don't vote on anything, and they don't get to rule on whether or not a law is Constitutional.
Trump is used to being hostile with the press, so big deal.
He was the moving screen to keep other candidates from getting air time and to smear the one the Dems and GOP were really afraid of. Truly a stalking horse.
The people I want hostile to the Liberal agenda are the Congress.
They have the stroke to stop things from happening.
What I have not seen is that going on, even against the Democrat Disaster we have in the White House, so how on Earth am I to expect ANY resistance to a Trump off the rails from a GOP Congress? They'll suck up on Party Lines and every damnfool liberal idea he comes up with will get fast-tracked. His fans will cheer as the food is pulled from their table, their guns from their hands, and their jobs are sent elsewhere while tariffs raise the cost of everything. If we couldn't get people to see what a POS he is during the primaries and beyond, what makes you think his sycophants and worshipers won't ignore the very proclamations and enactments which bring ruin, even as the walls are collapsing on them?
I read the Party Platform, just like I read it every year since Reagan. If the Party won't follow the Constitution, how can we expect it to follow something so trivial as a set of campaign promises? Trump didn't write that stuff. If the Party had followed all the wonderful things it said it would do in the past, even with both houses of Congress and the White House, too, the "You are here" arrow would be on the right side of the map. It just hasn't done so, and don't bother looking for that little arrow there.
Nor do I have any faith that he will follow that platform either, especially after a Primary campaign full of lies and deceit, which apparently mirrors his business model. Fuhgeddaboutit.
It will be up to the GOP in Congress, provided they can retain control of at least one of the houses to stop Hillary. That's thin gruel to live on, but that's the future. Better push the down ticket races, because the Republic is going to need every friend it can muster in Congress.
As for reining in the EPA, the very first big promise Trump made was in Iowa, where he said he'd seek to increase the ethanol (Renewable Fuels) mandate, and he'd use the EPA to the fullest extent of the law to enforce it. That sounds like he's going to let the agency get the bit in its teeth, not like it's going to be reined in.
Now either he was lying then, or he's lying now, either place to get votes. That says it all. He has a Liberal History, he will lie to get your vote. Period. You want to trust that, go for it.
Don't snivel to me if he gets elected and follows a different platform, you've been warned.
Me, I much prefer an enemy everyone can see is an enemy, whom everyone will fight from day one, to some one who claims to be a pal who'll stab us all in the back, even as people are singing his 'virtues'.
