I think I'm more anti-leftist than I am pro Trump

I think a lot of people feel that way, Bick. It’s hard to work up a lot of enthusiasm for a guy who too often comes out and says such off-the-wall things or tweets like a millennial in heat. But so many of his policies are just common sense that you would think any normal person would support: stabilizing the border, trying to halt the Chinese intellectual property theft, trying to bring home jobs and manufacturing from overseas, holding allies responsible for contributing a reasonable amount to their own security, making it clear to the Chinese that they don’t own an entire ocean, etc. He goes about it like a bull in a china shop (Churchill once described a particular American general as “a bull who brings his own china shop with him”)

But you have to measure him against the alternative. It makes him look a whole lot better. It’s like the old saying that at 2 AM as the bar is closing the woman sitting next to you on the barstool starts looking a whole lot better. Or as Churchill (Again) once put it in terms of economics “Capitalism is the worst possible economic system with the exception of all the others.“...........................Luca

However, I am also mindful of two things:

1. He was the only choice in the election, surprised though I was that he did actually win against the Clinton machine; 
2. He bugs the SH*T out of the snowflakes, particularly those in Congress.

I think this idea has some merit:

I think you're spot on here. In fact, one of the original complaints of Republican Never-Trumpers was that he had no consistent conservative political lineage or principles (and still doesn't). And I'll grant that this is a semi-valid valid criticism.

That being said, Donald Trump's instincts are ferociously anti-Left, perhaps more so than any GOP President or nominee in modern history. And the fact that he unapologetic in his willingness to mock the Left and punch back twice as hard as he takes is (in IMHO) one of his greatest traits and what is also driving the Left to clinical insanity.

Ad multos annos!

Sure, arrogate to your heart’s content, but please keep the royalty checks coming...

For me, the anti-left/pro-Trump choice in the title of this thread is a no-brainer, because I'm anti-Trump and make no bones about it. I agree with much of what he's done, but I think as a person he's one of the great shitholes in human history. (I feel it's OK to use that term since he used it first.)

With that said, the left has gone so far beyond any adult rational thought, that I would rather leave America than support almost anything they propose. Furthermore, if they were just loony, that would be acceptable, but they have gone to the point of proposing and attempting to silence all opposing thought. And that is anathema to everything I believe.