Draggingtree Posted December 5, 2016 Share Posted December 5, 2016 Chronicles : Carpe Diem, Mr. Trump! View all posts from this blog By:Tom Piatak | December 05, 2016 Last week I attended a legal conference hosted by a well-positioned law firm with many significant corporate clients. What I heard there was surprising, and encouraging. An expert on tax policy declared that Trump had been substantially right about trade, and that Paul Ryan's tax reform package contained provisions that could, and maybe even would, become a border adjusted VAT of the type that acts like a tariff. An expert on regulatory policy told us that Trump owed his victory to his positions on trade and immigration, and that political reality dictated that he would need to deliver something on those issues, whether the corporate elite liked it or not. I also heard many people agreeing that, far from being the only Republican who could lose to Hillary—a staple of Never Trump propaganda before November 8—Trump was likely the only Republican running who could have beaten Hillary, and that Republicans hoping to win national elections in the future will need to appeal to the voters that Trump won by advocating policies similar to the ones he championed. It is possible that some of Trump's GOP rivals would also have carried Ohio and Florida, but it is difficult to see how any of them would also have been able to win Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin, the states that propelled Trump to victory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted December 5, 2016 Share Posted December 5, 2016 "Trump has converted the GOP into a populist, America First party" Not Me!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draggingtree Posted December 6, 2016 Author Share Posted December 6, 2016 "Trump has converted the GOP into a populist, America First party" Not Me!!! we'll see Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted December 6, 2016 Share Posted December 6, 2016 "Trump has converted the GOP into a populist, America First party" Not Me!!! we'll see When looking at populism I am always reminded of the HL Mencken quote "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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