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Originally Posted by Poopadoop
What is Trump's policy on gun control?
What's his policy on foreign trade?
How about abortion?
I wanted to respond to this from yesterday.
Here's approximately how conservatives view Trump and these things: conservatives don't focus on what he says as much as on what he does, and sometimes what he says, to whom, and when he says it informs the "what he does" that conservatives focus on. An example might be with immigration. Trump has said all sorts of stuff on immigration, yet conservatives haven't been confused by him. From the outside, this doesn't make sense, but I'll make sense of it for you now.
When Trump entered the scene he took the conservative line on immigration to a T and he did it against a barrage of pressure and when nobody else was doing it and he didn't back down. This informed conservatives on where Trump stood on immigration, because he took risks with what he DID. At later dates Trump said all sorts of stuff about immigration (most of which was wrongly interpreted, but whatever). Some conservatives wavered because they didn't like hearing it, but most conservatives didn't waver one bit. This was in part because they believed what he DOES instead of what he says. On immigration he DID the conservative thing, and on other issues that can help inform what he may do in the future on immigration, conservatives look at what he DID and found that he stuck to his word, the word that he led with and that he took the most risk sticking to.
Currently, conservatives feel like we are in a situation where Trump has kept all of his promises that he has had an opportunity to keep at this point. Because of this, because of what he has done, conservatives aren't concerned that much when he says something that appears different or nuanced or negotiating or whatever. Because conservatives have the evidence they need that by the end of it, Trump will keep his promise. This applies to all of the issues, abortion, guns, whatever.
Now, if Trump ever does give in and sign law that harms conservatives, it'll be a blow to him among conservatives. It won't be a death blow, because people are allowed single strikes. But if he does it twice, or three times, he'll be abandoned by conservatives. I predict Trump will not keep his promises a big fat zero times.
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