A lot of Republicans don't care about conservatism and this election proves it.
Amen. The mask has been revealed and all that rhetoric about "muh constitution" and "muh small government" was just rhetoric and nothing more.
...basically. It is kind of complicated. I have often wondered if a national candidates ideological scorecard matters when weighed against other factors like:
1) ability to win
2) ability to call out democrat/media crap effectively
etc.
If you are a constitutional-ist and a federalist, than just keep insane democrats out of the white house and govern from the legislature and the states... like you should.
Trump will be directly involved in:
1)appointing non-lunatic judges
2)conducting a sane foreign policy
3)cutting a trade deal or two
4)boarder security / immigration reform5)maybe reigning in the lunatic EPA
6)appointing a cabinet obviously
Everything else is the states or congressional proposal/deal making.
so, really who cares how pure the guy is. Democrats can't have the white house is the bottom line.
Trumps will get 2 major issues done personally (the nationalist two) and delegate the rest to party loyalists and conservatives.
I can live with that... It's pretty reasonable.