You can add Mr. Trump’s cruise-missile attack on the Syrian airbase as another arguably good thing that he’s done. (Along with, most notably, the Gorsuch nomination.) Certainly I don’t lament it. We simply can’t stand by while the Syrian regime uses poison gas on innocent civilians.
That said, I’ve maintained all along that Mr. Trump isn’t a conservative but rather a reflexive and unreflective authoritarian nationalist whose positions will, sometimes, coincide with those of conservatives.
Here’s something for people like me, people genuinely on the principled libertarian/conservative right, to watch:
(21 March 2017): “Beware a Turn to the New Yorkers”
(6 April 2017): “Will the New York Moderates Rule the World?”
I fear that those who voted for Mr. Trump in the belief that they were supporting a conservative — unlike that horrible RINO Mitt Romney (who, unlike Mr. Trump, has never been a major Democratic donor, let alone a registered Democrat, and who has never explained that he identifies more with Democrats than with Republicans) — may be disappointed with the passage of time. And I also fear that Mr. Trump’s remarkably low poll-ratings may foretell enormous damage in the next two electoral cycles to the Republican Party and, thereby, to the genuine conservative cause.
May my hopes not be realized.
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