Justin Stapley: Conservatives don't need Donald Trump again

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : Secondly, Trump continues to get praise for lowering taxes.
51% : Lowering taxes without addressing spending passes the buck to future generations.
51% : But George Will defines protectionism as "government coercion supplanting the voluntary transactions of markets in the allocation of wealth and opportunity," amounting to "socialism for the well connected."
49% : Trump accumulated serious spending in a time of plenty when we should have been applying the principles of thrift and fiscal conservatism.
47% : By throwing off the economic policies of the mother country (#BritainFirst, if you will), America established what amounted to an empire of free trade.
47% : The fact that he lowered taxes despite failing to rein in spending only confirms this observation.
43% : When a nation engages in protectionism as a nationalist project, we get a form of crony capitalism that we can only describe as national socialism.
42% : Finally, Trump's policies of economic nationalism and protectionism were a shrug back to the very mercantilism the early American patriots revolted against.

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