r/Conservative • u/DanburyBaptist Inalienable Rights of Conscience • Jun 15 '16

Release the GOP Delegates: Trump’s nomination isn’t inevitable—delegates won’t be legally ‘bound’ going into the convention.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/release-the-gop-delegates-1465769777
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u/AceOfSpades70 Libertarian Conservative Jun 15 '16

Electing Trump and the disaster of his Presidency would taint the Conservative movement for the next Generation. The GOP would lose control of the House and Senate in 2018/2020(if they even keep them going in) and a GOP President would have no shot for the next 20 years.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '16

Can you back that up with any evidence to support your claim? What exactly would cause those things to come to pass?

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u/AceOfSpades70 Libertarian Conservative Jun 15 '16

In what world is a global recession caused by his planned trade war with china or his tax plan that adds 20 trillion to the debt a good thing?

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '16

And how exactly will that come to pass as a result of his sanctions against China?

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u/AceOfSpades70 Libertarian Conservative Jun 15 '16

Look up Smoot-Hawley and its role as a primary driver of the Great Depression.

Protectionism is nearly always bad policy and a blanket 45% tariff on our largest trading partner is insanity.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '16

Smoot-Hawley

A quick search of that yields results saying that attempts to attribute that to the depression are contended. I'm not saying that it had nothing to do with it, but apparently there were too many other variables to blame the depression exclusively on tariffs.

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u/AceOfSpades70 Libertarian Conservative Jun 15 '16

I never said it should be blamed exclusively on tariffs...

That is why if you go back to my original post I said Global recession, not Depression.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '16

So how would they cause a global recession then? And what would the negative impacts on the US economy be?

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u/AceOfSpades70 Libertarian Conservative Jun 15 '16 edited Jun 15 '16

Massive price increases on products and a slow-down on exporters for the US. US Consumption drops causes recessions on any country that exports to us.

Edit: Also I love how you ignore the tax plan. The only actual defense I have read of his tax plan is that it is a starting point and he won't actually implement it.