As for the reasons I wrote him in, I was specifically backing him as a rebuke to the nativist Trumpian GOP that wanted to go isolationist / non-interventionist, roll back his free trade ideals within the Republican Party, and to shut off his efforts to appeal to minorities in favor of a white nationalist appeal. I thought for all his mistakes, 43 was a reasonable model on which to build a successful Republican Party and conservative model for the nation.
You know what else would have been a rebuke to Trump's non-interventionism, economic nationalism and immigration restrictionism? Voting for Hillary Clinton.
You remember? The candidate who believed in free trade, an interventionist foreign policy, and a general amnesty with border security? Key that this is in past tense, friend. Donald Trump was just as supportive of free trade in the past as Hillary Clinton, yet you don't hold him to that standard. The fact is both probably largely realize the economic benefit to themselves that comes from free trade yet both campaigned on being protectionists ... it's a wash, plain and simple, on the issue.
Anyway, CLEARLY Bush/Cheney.
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