Good article about how Trump has BS'd his way to the top of the GOP nomination race and is now conveniently pivoting/evolving.

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As the Trump Turns

Donald Trump has been and always will be mostly liberal. He holds to a pair of conservative principles regarding illegal immigration and nationalism, but even those will be watered down after the Republican National Convention if he's able to secure the nomination. The rest of his policies from "fair trade" tariff threats to raising taxes on the rich to failing to back Israel were among dozens of early examples of his similarities to Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, and even President Obama.

His supporters have excuses for all of them. They'll say that when he mentioned tariffs, he only meant it as an empty threat because every conservative knows that the people who pay for tariffs are American consumers, not the targeted foreign country. When he talks about raising taxes on the rich, "heck ya because those &$^#*@#'s deserve to pay more." The problem, of course, is that stifling the people and businesses that employ the masses always has the "unintended" side-effect of loss of jobs for average Americans. When he talks ill of Israel, his supporters will point to his speech at AIPAC when he said very nice things while pandering to the Jewish crowd.

Here's the problem with Trump. He's never held public office, but he's a master politician. He was involved with political manipulations since before Ted Cruz was born and has never been ashamed to admit it. The most important skill that a politician learns is how to work an audience and tell them what they want to hear. He is better than Clinton at this. He is at least equal to if not better than President Obama, which is saying a lot.
The secret to this particular skill can be summed up in one quote:

"I'm very capable of changing to anything I want to change to."


Read More: http://medium.com/political-jargon/as-the-trump-turns-bathrooms-and-abortions-are-the-next-steps-in-his-leftist-pivot-528de38453b5#.kk8b29rfk

Fix your "Read More:" link, I think you used a pic icon?

Quote from: Solar on April 22, 2016, 07:05:03 AM
Fix your "Read More:" link, I think you used a pic icon?

Should be good now.

Quote from: mrconservative on April 22, 2016, 07:12:47 AM
Should be good now.

I took [img] out of the link.
Just post the address as is, you don't need to click the link icon.