Obama’s Third Term

I read that Brad Thor and PJ O’Rourke came out against Trump today.  I will likely address their points in depth at some point, but for now I wanted to frame this simply: in what respect can anyone argue that Hillary, if elected, will not simply continue the bulk of Obama’s policies?  She was his Secretary of State.  She supported Obamacare.  Her foreign policy WAS the Obama foreign policy for a time.  There is no reason to think she will not continue to abuse executive privilege, and her daughter has SAID that working for gun confiscation via the Supreme Court is one of her goals.

Where would the daylight between them be?  She is even using identity politics to get elected.

Conversely, can anyone SERIOUSLY claim that they expect Donald Trump do follow Barack Obama’s footsteps?  He has already signaled a new peace through strength and not fucking with other countries unless we have to policy.  He wants to rationalize taxes.  He wants to deal in some fashion with the Mexican invasion.  He wants better trade deals (not protectionism, but at least some sense that American interests qua American interests should play a role, and that we can do better).

How fucking stupid do you have to be to support Hillary relative to Trump?  We hear he is a “loose cannon”.  Think this through: who among the candidates has sat through more adversarial negotiations?  Trump has been in conflict with people almost as a rule for most of his life.  He is not a loose cannon at all.  He is a savvy negotiator who provides as few details as possible, acts like he is out of control, but who at the end of the day has a plan, and NEVER actually flies off the handle.  HILLARY, on the other hand, DOES seem to lose her temper often.

Do you want someone who has sat at hundreds of negotiating tables, or someone who couldn’t make it out of the first round in a local charity poker tournament?

I am puzzled at the thoughts and actions of people I thought had intelligence.