Donald Trump Conservative? — The sagacious Mychal Massie pondered the question as to whether Donald Trump sees himself as a “conservative” and concluded that he doesn’t.
And he applauded it.
And we agree.
Massie said that Trump is a pragmatist in the good sense of the word i.e. that he doesn’t view solutions to problems via the lens of an ideology.
He wrote:
Viewing problems from a liberal perspective has resulted in the creation of more problems, more entitlement programs, more victims, more government, more political correctness, and more attacks on the working class in all economic strata.
Viewing things according to the so-called Republican conservative perspective has brought continued spending, globalism to the detriment of American interests and well being, denial of what the real problems are, weak, ineffective, milquetoast, leadership that amounts to Barney Fife Deputy Sheriff – appeasement oriented and afraid of its own shadow. In brief, it has brought liberal ideology with a pachyderm as a mascot juxtaposed to the ass of the Democrat Party.
Bingo!
Purity tests lead to inversion of values. The end is forgotten and only the means is exalted. Freedom and wealth are the end, the ball upon which one should keep one’s eye on. Free markets are the means, the way of achieving this goal. When one starts questioning things that are done in the name of “free markets” such as open borders, bad trade deals, “The New World Order” and even the expansion of long-obsolete NATO, and is attacked as being “non conservative” then one knows the inversion has happened, and that the emperor is not merely not wearing a “conservative” robe but is buck naked.
Massie is an ordained minister who spent 13 years in full-time Christian ministry. He is founder and chairman of the Racial Policy Center which advocates for a colorblind society. He is the former National Chairman of Project 21 -The National Leadership Network of Black Conservatives.
The column which inspired this article can be found here and is well worth reading.
Massie, in fact, has a lot of good stuff and his site is worth checking out.
Hat tip Fran Coppock