This Is What You Will Get With Trump. Do You Accept It?

If you’re going to vote for Trump, make sure you know what you’re getting

Posted on January 28, 2016 by Bob Livingston

Personal Liberty Poll

Exercise your right to vote.

It’s looking more and more likely that Donald Trump will be the Republican nominee for president.

Barring a “black swan” event or a torpedo in the form of a deep, dark skeleton from Trump’s closet unveiled at the last minute, Trump may just lap the field. Polls have him leading Cruz in the first caucus and primary states: Iowa (though within the margin of error), New Hampshire (by 19 points), South Carolina (by 19 points) and Nevada (by 13 points). Of the 11 states that caucus or hold primaries on March 1, Trump leads all but three. He trails Ted Cruz by 15 in Texas, Carson by five in Virginia (where party muckety mucks require a pledge to be a Republican to vote in the primary), and Marco Rubio by two in Minnesota.

Trump has caught the wave of anti-establishment, anti-illegal immigration, anti-crony trade deal, anti-crony government, anti-controlled media sentiment  that establishment candidates and corporate controlled media don’t (or won’t) understand. But if you consider yourself conservative and plan to vote for Trump, you need to be sure you understand what you’re getting. For as my dad used to say, “You should never buy a pig in a poke.”

• Trump will doubtless use executive orders to impose his will. Americans claim to abhor presidential executive orders (except when the president does something they like). One of conservatives’ main complaints about the undocumented usurper currently despoiling the People’s House is his propensity to circumvent congress and write his own laws. Trump has indicated no real fealty to the Constitution outside some platitudes about the 2nd Amendment. Being a CEO with a desire to “fix” what he considers a dysfunctional corporation America, Trump will want his way and will likely out-do Obama in that regard.

• Trump supports taking property from individuals for corporate use (eminent domain).

• Trump has called NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden a traitor and wants him “killed.”

• Trump wants to repeal Obamacare (that’s good) and replace it with a single payer healthcare plan (not good).

• Trump has flipped (he says evolved) on a host of issues, like party affiliation, gun bans, abortion and taxes on the wealthy.

• Trump says gay marriage is a reality after the Supreme Court decision.

• Trump calls police, who killed 1,204 people (more than three per day) last year and which is up more than 500 from 2013, the most mistreated people in America and wants to “give power back to the police because crime is rampant.”

• Trump supports more Middle East bombing, calling for the killing of terrorists’ families.

• Trump supports printing money to bail out failing banks. He supported the bankster/Wall Street bailouts, saying, “I do agree with what they’re doing with the banks. Whether they fund them or nationalize them, it doesn’t matter, but you have to keep the banks going.”

On the positive side, Trump has made the heads of the establishment – especially the GOP establishment — explode. If he tears down the Republican Party and the crony District of Criminals system (which is what the GOP establishment fears most of all), a Trump presidency may provide a net gain.

A columnist at The Federalist writes that the GOP should make a deal with Trump. The deal?

 [A] President Trump would return to governing in the way the Founders envisioned: Congress controls taxes, spending, and borrowing; Congress passes individual appropriation bills — no more continuing resolutions, which, by their nature, are difficult to reject without shutting down the government; and Congress takes back the lawmaking power it has relinquished to the regulatory agencies. No more governing by executive orders — except to repeal President Obama’s executive orders.

If Trump wants to build a wall on our border with Mexico, he has to propose it and get Congress’s permission. No permission, no wall. Deals with foreign powers, which we used to call treaties, must get Senate approval.

President Trump must promise to be the anti-Obama. Oddly enough — because it surely would be odd — if Trump ended the imperial presidency, he would truly be a transformational president.

But that would necessitate Trump studying the history of our nation’s founding and gaining an understanding of constitutional governance, and of congress suddenly governing constitutionally; something for which it has shown no propensity for decades.