No, I Don’t Believe Donald Trump Is a Conservative

By Ammoland

By David Limbaugh

USA – -(Ammoland.com)- This short essay is in response to a friend who asked me to explain how Donald Trump is unacceptable to “movement conservatives.”

Let’s first acknowledge that many Trump supporters don’t even claim to be conservative — though others do — and Trump himself is rather dismissive on the point, so they may consider this column a meaningless academic exercise. But a Trump supporter asked, so I’ll try to explain.

Because I think my questioner was inquiring mostly about issues, I won’t delve into Trump’s apparent lack of presidential temperament and public deportment — as reflected mostly in the debates and his speeches — other than to suggest that they betray values that don’t strike me as particularly conservative.

On the issues, Trump appears to have no ideological core. He can’t sufficiently define “conservative” and, when pressed, says that even Ronald Reagan wasn’t that conservative. Trump cites Reagan’s earlier affiliation with the Democratic Party as his excuse for having supported liberal causes and politicians all his life, though unlike Reagan, Trump can never point to a personal conversion. He prefers to work with the uncompromising, extremist …Read the Rest

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