If one looks at Donald Trump’s statements about public affairs over many decades, he often seemed to be a liberal Democrat.
Now he is consorting with powerful military figures recently retired, and powerful corporate people from Exxon Mobil and Goldman Sachs and other corporate types, and is in bed with right wing Republican forces in Congress.
Trump changes his mind so much and so often that one wonders where his leanings are, but right now it seems to be moving to the hard right, based on appointments.
But one can hope that he might evolve into a Richard Nixon-Nelson Rockefeller type of Republican, a pragmatic, mainstream view of foreign policy as Richard Nixon had, and a support of basic domestic programs and ideas as Nixon and Nelson Rockefeller tended to support.
Under present circumstances, IF Trump turned out to be a Nixon-Rockefeller type of Republican, he would become very different than most Republicans in Congress are in 2016-2017. But he would also alienate the party that elected him, so do not expect Trump, who is totally unpredictable, to be a profile in courage.
But if he were, that would be the best we could expect from him, but do not hold your breath!
Professor,
I can only envision President The Donald very shortly after his inauguration copying Rockefeller’s reply to many of the delegates at the 1964 GOP convention giving his middle digit to most of the party when he doesn’t get his way.
And , as we know Rocky wasn’t signifying that they were number one!
Other than that and they were both millionaires (I’m not buying that Trump is worth billions), the resemblance ends there.
You are most certainly correct, Paul, but I was grasping at straws, so to speak! LOL
And if Trump would do some of the domestic reforms that Nixon signed into law, it would be great, but I guess, with the GOP as now constituted, that is NOT going to happen, sadly!
Nails it regarding the “elites”.
http://washingtonmonthly.com/2016/12/15/who-are-the-elites/#.WFLyHtDUhk4.facebook