cb1000rider wrote:parabelum wrote:Trump is not going to be the beacon of conservativism obviously. He will knock the ISIS barbarians back into 6'th century, that I am confident about.
I'm not confident about that. He'd start monitoring Americans of Muslim faith in their neighborhoods. Let me stress the
American part. I will give him that this is a step back from interning the Americans of Japanese ethnicity that we did in the 1940s.
And remember, regardless of your personal dogma, America was founded as a country of laws that accepted more than one religion.
He'd build a wall with Mexico and make Mexico pay for it. That promise is neither realistic or pragmatic. There are much better ways to control the border than what will be a cop-out because Mexico didn't pony up the funds.
Although I do agree he's likely to be much more aggressive and less measured than Hilary, I'm not sure that he's capable of formulating effective, pragmatic policy. He might get it right and nip it in the bud. He also might get it wrong and make it worse:
Alienating Muslim Americans, the vast majority of which have lived here peacefully beside non-Muslims for decades is likely to cause many more problems than it solves....
Hilary is likely to attempt more gun control. That's true. The congress is such a grid-lock that I don't think anything is likely to come of it. That assumes that Hilary isn't indited for the whole email thing, which might at least provide a better option....
