As I’ve quipped before Republicans are now in the position of the dog who caught the car. To get some idea of how that’s the case consider Robert VerBruggen’s reaction at The American Conservative:
Pretty much everyone thought Hillary Clinton would be the president-elect right now. As a result, few spent much time gaming out the scenario we find ourselves in: next year, Donald Trump will be the president, accompanied by a Republican (though not filibuster-proof) Senate and a solidly GOP House.
I’m as guilty as anyone. My last pre-election column was about what President Clinton would do to the Supreme Court. A month ago I tried to find Obamacare tweaks that Republicans could demand in exchange for helping to fix the law, because only a moron would think anything more dramatic might be possible.
So here’s an attempt to atone for my sins and outline the possibilities for a Trump presidency in a number of domestic-policy areas.
His problem: Trumpism isn’t conservatism, at least not conservatism as Mr. VerBruggen would apparently define it. Fasten your seatbelts, we’re in for a bumpy ride. Next step: how great a distance will there be between Trump’s rhetoric and the policies he supports?
Someone aptly called Trump’s hard core supporters as advocates of “socialism for whites.”
Problem is, can’t be done in a multicultural society which turns many
erstwhile white socialists, incidentially, into small government libertarians, which in itself creates other problems.
And I’m for getting these problems settled while exiting from areas of the world where we are not wanted and have only wrought havoc.