I sense that you are a doctrinaire conservative for which only 100% passes - at least 100% of the items you personally hold to be "deal breakers". That again is not meant as a criticism, because I accept your POV as legitimate because feelings are real. I have a greater problem however, with justifying highly exclusionary blanket condemnations as being "conservative" in nature since for me that standard is set by RWR's appraisal.
RWR stated that anyone with whom you agree 80% of the time is a political ally. Remove Trump's silly infrastructure big spending, this equally silly benefit for pregnant women, and some of his silly attacks on conservatives (Cruz and Carson among the worst) and the silly idea of raising tariffs to solve the trade imbalance, and you are left with what is likely to be strong support for the military (in terms of reallocating necessary spending to the Navy) strong support for veterans, strong support for Christians, strong support for Israel, strong support for reform in (ending) farming subsidies, strong support for stopping overregulation from EPA in many areas, choosing strong supreme court and appellate court nominees (the list he proposed for nominees has many who rate highly on conservative indexes), strong support for a State Department which actually HAS a consistent foreign policy, and some sort of immigration policy that is not amoral or illegal. I don't know is that is actually 80% but its a lot closer than the 0% we'd get from Hill-O-Lies.
Most here are pragmatic Conservatives who don't see someone who is 80% of the time an ally- they seem someone who is a johnny come lately ally-- 20% through his history at best-- and a history that says he will lie to your face to sell you on his deal.
Almost everything you listed in the 'what you have left' column are things that Trump has changed is position on countless times or more importantly, when it came to his own money and his own businesses- did the exact opposite.
What we see is a lifetime con-artist, cronyist liberal, who is the very definition of what everyone complains is wrong with the political establishment- for every politician being bought, there is someone doing the buying and in his circle, Trump led the way.
This is a man who has zero regard for private property rights if they get in his way. This is a man who started a PAC in NY specifically to block businesses from competing with his New Jersey businesses. This is a man who paid politicians to have businesses all along the NJ boardwalk condemned so he could buy them up for pennies on the dollar and build casinos.
Here is your challenge, I call it -
actions speak louder than words.
Take away everything Trump says or promise he makes and just look at what he does with his own money and with his own businesses and come back and tell us he is anywhere close to a Constitutional, free-market Conservative (or is, by how he runs his businesses, much closer to a George Soros styled cronyist?)
