Where Trump Breaks With the Republican Party

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Where Trump Breaks With the Republican Party

By ALAN RAPPEPORT and ALICIA PARLAPIANO at the NY Times

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/05/11/us/politics/where-trump-breaks-with-the-republican-party.html?ref=politics&_r=1

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Though Mr. Trump previously stated his support for free trade, he has called for punishing companies that move jobs abroad with tax hikes, and he has promised to renegotiate trade deals that do not favor American workers. He has also threatened to impose a tariff on Chinese goods if China manipulates its currency.


Republicans generally support trade deals, and Mr. Ryan has been a proponent of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade deal involving the United States and Pacific Rim nations. Mr. Ryan authored legislation that gave President Obama expanded negotiating powers to complete the accord, legislation Mr. Trump vocally opposed.

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Mr. Trump has broken with Republican orthodoxy by vowing to close tax loopholes that benefit the rich and by suggesting — and later retracting — that the wealthiest could pay higher taxes under his plan. He has said he would be open to raising the minimum wage. He has expressed little concern about reining in government spending, and when on the national debt, he said recently that the United States could walk away from some of its obligations and would never default because it prints the money.


On entitlements, Mr. Trump offers a clean split from many Republicans, who have called loudly in recent years for deep spending cuts. “I’m not going to cut Social Security like every other Republican, and I’m not going to cut Medicare or Medicaid,” Mr. Trump has said.



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1. If Trump has done anything it is to school the GOP base on some liberal ideas. They'll get

comfortable thinking about voting their own economic best interest. Trump will lose. And if these idiots open their hearts and let in people of many cultures, as people sometimes do when, all of a sudden, their neighbours names are Fatima and Kareem, with Jose and Ceceillia down the street, and they will be democrats some day soon.

[world wide wally]

2. Trump has also said all the opposite things

[patricia92243]

3. YES - he most certainly has. What is the truth depends on what day it is for Daffy Donald.

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4. He's dyslexic. Dyslexics look at the world in 3D. They scan all horizons. They look at the intuitive

and the counter intuitive. They look at everything from every perspective. It is like doing a dialectic with yourself to get to the truth: thesis, antithesis, synthesis. Trump has synthesized that the base are racist and have not done well under the GOP. That is where he is when he speaks from the heart. The GOP will try and stuff their fiction down his gullet but I bet he keeps going back to liberal ideas on some issues. Cause that is what the people need. And he reads that crowd. Maybe in the general he will be reading a different bigger crowd. Do not know.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

5. Bingo....why the establishment hates him....

Mr. Trump advocates allowing the federal government to negotiate lower prescription drug prices for Medicare and Medicaid, a central plank of Democratic health proposals that have been adamantly, and successfully, opposed by Republican leaders.

And, also, Trump's line about allowing people to buy health insurance across state lines.

Each Democratic candidate should be shouting these things from the rooftops !!

WTF...the insurance lobby is so strong that no one has asked the questions Trump is asking?????????????

[Wounded Bear]

6. The insurance thing....

about selling across state lines is a red herring. They already can. They just want to fix it so they can sell from the states with the worst regulations and sell crap policies for more money.

[Wounded Bear]

7. Has Trump said anything...

that he didn't later retract, contradict, or back off from?

I don't recall any times. He's been on all sides of all issues from what I can tell.

[Democat]

8. Trump has no policies, only false promises

So he can change his views every day.

[Rex]

9. Trump plays the idiot GOP like total stooges.

And he ain't all that smart! Says a lot about the party of dumb shits.

[MrScorpio]

10. Considering Trump's own mouth, it's amazing how adept he is at talking out of both sides of it...