Here's the Donald's "platform", such as it is today:
1. Foreign Interventions Must Require Cost-Sharing Plans to Reduce U.S. Costs and Guarantee Veterans and Their Families Are Protected
How about protecting our military and veterans from unnecessary wars? I've got no problem about going to war when it's necessary and it's right...but listening to the blood-hungry rhetoric from the Right? No. All the problems in the world are nails to them, and so the hammer of the military is their solution to everything. The Right has forgotten the value of diplomacy
2. Pass NOPEC Legislation to Break OPEC’s Grip on Energy Prices
Hm, let me see here - America's producing more oil than anyone else, and Russia - also not an OPEC member - is not far behind. Who, really, has the grip on oil prices. What the Right doesn't understand is that oil is FUNGIBLE...meaning that as soon as the oil's on the market, it doesn't matter where it comes from, as long as the price is low. That's why it doesn't matter that we're now an oil exporter - we're still importing oil from the Middle East when it's cheaper than what we put on the market...and the president has ZERO power over this simple fact about modern-day "free-marketeering".
3. Crack Down on China’s Currency Manipulation by Calculating Taxes on Imports Based on How Much a Manufacturing Country’s Currency is Undervalued
Sounds nice...until the biggest retailer on the planet - Wal-Mart - starts putting pressure on politicians to stop putting pressure on China 'cause prices, y'know. And then the other retailers start doing the same thing...and then all of a sudden, bills like this particular suggestion die in committee and nobody take responsibility for killing it.
4. Spur Job and Wealth Creation through a 5-Point Tax Plan
Wait Wait Don't Tell Me...TAX CUTS FOR THE WEALTHY!!!!! Like that really worked for Bush 43, hm? Sooo...I just checked, and it's tax cuts for everybody...AND it's slashing the corporate tax rate to ZERO.
Yep! More of that oh-so-magical economic theory that if we tax LESS, we'll get MORE revenue. Those who've been around might remember that Bush 43's dad - Bush 41 - called that "voodoo economics"...'cause it's a freaking fantasy. If anyone's been watching Greece, how's three successive rounds of imposed austerity worked out for them, hm? But I guess in Trump World, all taxes go towards military and jails, and who needs to fund silly little things like highways and bridges and Medicare...and if we stop funding these things, we'll magically have MORE revenue which will give us money to fix these things. Riiiiiiiiiight!
5. Finish the Border Fence, Boot Out Criminal Illegals, and Reform America’s Legal Immigration System
Mm-hmm...and in Trump World, all 11 million illegal immigrants are criminal illegals, so that means we're going to go door-to-door with "papers-please" and root out all those murderers and rapists (never mind that their crime rate is significantly lower than among native-born) and liberal-voter-fodder (never mind a near-total dearth of ANY voter fraud). But hey, the government's only "Big Brother" when it's not used by conservatives, right? And this will be especially effective, it seems, since after slashing much of the government's tax revenue, the agencies tasked to do this would have had their funding slashed...but our Great Americans working for the Department of Homeland Security will surely work for free, paying for all their own travel and training and weapons and whatnot, just out of the goodness of their patriotic ol' hearts!
Isn't that wonderful? And magical? And even...fantastical?
