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Wow. What was that all about? Legolas Send a noteboard - 28/08/2015 05:26:05 PM

I like a good Cannoli rant as much as anyone, and sure, this guy is patronizing. But some parts of that reply degenerated into nonsense of a kind I really wasn't expecting.

Lest anyone forget, we are not talking about Michele Bachmann or Sarah Palin here - this isn't the Republican establishment trying to shut down a candidate for being too conservative. I'm not sure anyone is convinced that Trump is conservative at all - there certainly can be no contest that Romney, McCain, both Bushes and obviously Reagan were/are all more conservative. Other than "sticking it to the man" in a way I would've expected to be popular more among spoiled sixteen-year-olds than among adult Republicans, it's hard to see how he is even more conservative than, say, Lincoln Chafee or Olympia Snowe. At least if you take his rhetoric of the last couple of months with the pinches of salt it surely deserves.

The only point on which Trump is "conservative", though really it's just more of the same of his ugly personal brand of populism, is illegal immigration, which is also where your post went off the deep end, to a place where even the most basic facts can be completely ignored if inconvenient. What was that again about soundbites and scapegoating?

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