Most republican voters agree fully with Trump on immigration. It's such an important issue, the overriding issue really, that his gaffes on other issues do not concern us. If we don't get a handle on immigration, the other issues really won't matter because in a couple of years, we will be the United State of Mexifornia.
But another issue is very important, maybe more important. It concerns foreign affairs and our role in the world. Trump has caused fainting spells among the republican establishment with such heretical ideas as our allies should pony up the cost of defending them and why are we still supporting NATO when the threat it was created to counter is long gone?
We get the usual platitudes that "America must lead" and global security depends on us. But why? And why should we have to pay for the lion's share of it? Why does it matter to us which group of crooks and thugs rules some far-off country that we can't find on the map? The other candidates don't want to talk about these issues, even as they mock Trump's supposed foreign policy ignorance. The Big Thinkers in this case are a first term senator from Texas and some dork from the Midwest. Trump has done major deals all over the world with a multitude of different parties, yet he is the rube.
It's easy to understand the unease of the Establishment. The big defense contractors hire a lot of lobbyists and write a lot of checks. So we will be getting billion dollar manned aircraft that we don't need and couldn't responsibly risk in actual combat due to their cost. We will spend billions on ships that would be vaporized, along with their large crews, in the first 15 minutes of a war with a capable adversary like China or Russia. Generals and admirals always plan to fight the last war. Ours cannot even defeat a motley collection of opium farmers in Afghanistan. Of course, the farmers don't have to clear everything with Pentagon lawyers or worry about getting sent to prison for violating suicidal rule of engagement. We refuse to even name our enemy and in fact go to great lengths to say that we are not at war with it.
Other than defense contractors, there is a massive foreign policy establishment built up around the Atlantic Alliance, as well as all the trade deals that set up various tribunals staffed with international bureaucrats to undermine our sovereignty. Trumps' approach threatens all the cushy think tank jobs, the legions of consultants and lobbyists and lawyers and various rent seekers. But Cruz in outsider too, right? Uh no. His wife, whom he met while they worked on the Bush campaign, worked for Condi Rice and then was on the Council of Foreign Relations, which is pretty much the cathedral of the globalists. That was before she somehow landed a sweet gig with Goldman Sachs, in "investment management." Kind of remind you of Michele Obama's job at the U of Chicago Hospital?
So when Trump talks America First, he annoys and threatens a lot of very influential people. Why do you think he's the only one asking these questions? And why can't anyone answer them except to mock and attack him and then change the subject.
But another issue is very important, maybe more important. It concerns foreign affairs and our role in the world. Trump has caused fainting spells among the republican establishment with such heretical ideas as our allies should pony up the cost of defending them and why are we still supporting NATO when the threat it was created to counter is long gone?
We get the usual platitudes that "America must lead" and global security depends on us. But why? And why should we have to pay for the lion's share of it? Why does it matter to us which group of crooks and thugs rules some far-off country that we can't find on the map? The other candidates don't want to talk about these issues, even as they mock Trump's supposed foreign policy ignorance. The Big Thinkers in this case are a first term senator from Texas and some dork from the Midwest. Trump has done major deals all over the world with a multitude of different parties, yet he is the rube.
It's easy to understand the unease of the Establishment. The big defense contractors hire a lot of lobbyists and write a lot of checks. So we will be getting billion dollar manned aircraft that we don't need and couldn't responsibly risk in actual combat due to their cost. We will spend billions on ships that would be vaporized, along with their large crews, in the first 15 minutes of a war with a capable adversary like China or Russia. Generals and admirals always plan to fight the last war. Ours cannot even defeat a motley collection of opium farmers in Afghanistan. Of course, the farmers don't have to clear everything with Pentagon lawyers or worry about getting sent to prison for violating suicidal rule of engagement. We refuse to even name our enemy and in fact go to great lengths to say that we are not at war with it.
Other than defense contractors, there is a massive foreign policy establishment built up around the Atlantic Alliance, as well as all the trade deals that set up various tribunals staffed with international bureaucrats to undermine our sovereignty. Trumps' approach threatens all the cushy think tank jobs, the legions of consultants and lobbyists and lawyers and various rent seekers. But Cruz in outsider too, right? Uh no. His wife, whom he met while they worked on the Bush campaign, worked for Condi Rice and then was on the Council of Foreign Relations, which is pretty much the cathedral of the globalists. That was before she somehow landed a sweet gig with Goldman Sachs, in "investment management." Kind of remind you of Michele Obama's job at the U of Chicago Hospital?
So when Trump talks America First, he annoys and threatens a lot of very influential people. Why do you think he's the only one asking these questions? And why can't anyone answer them except to mock and attack him and then change the subject.
Ann Coulter ✔ @AnnCoulter 