Thread: Trump: This Is the Republican Party, It’s Not Called the Conservative Party

Trump: This Is the Republican Party, It’s Not Called the Conservative Party

BY: David Rutz
May 8, 2016 11:58 am

Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump said in an interview airing Sunday on ABC that while he was a conservative, people shouldn’t forget that “this is called the Republican Party, it’s not called the Conservative Party.”

In a wide-ranging interview with This Week’s George Stephanopoulos, Trump addressed the problem he faces of unifying the Republican Party, which is divided over his presumptive nomination for the presidency. Prominent figures like Jeb Bush and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) have already stated they will not support him, and Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R., Wis.) said this week he was not ready to back Trump.

Trump said, however, the party did not necessarily need to be unified in the traditional sense, alluding to former Democrats and working-class voters that have crossed over and supported his candidacy in the GOP primaries.

“I think it would be better if it were unified,” Trump said. “There would be something good about it, but I don’t think it actually has to be unified in the traditional sense.”

Trump said he would “do what I have to do,” pointing to people’s support for his bashing of free trade agreements that traditionally have been supported by Republicans.

“I want trade. I don’t want to be an isolationist, but what’s happening with China, what’s happening with Japan, what’s happening with Mexico, they’re just absolutely eating our lunch,” Trump said. “It’s a shame. It’s terrible, so I have to stay true to my principles also, and I’m a conservative. But don’t forget, this is called the Republican Party. It’s not called the Conservative Party. You know, there are conservative parties.

It’s called the Republican Party.“

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Yes, it's the Republican Party, not the conservative party. Trump gets it. He's the first true Republican to run for President in a long time, possibly since Ford, maybe since Eisenhower and Teddy Roosevelt. He gets it because he's one of US. When the party wandered into globalism and open borders and deficit spending and nothing for infrastructure, and all focused if not obsessed with social issues, not civil rights issues of the party tradition and original purpose, but social issues, taking one group's view of how people should live and wanting to use laws and the force and power of government to shove it down everyone's throat, we became a perversion of what we were to begin with, the people's party, and because a subset of a particular group. Many left the party, many stayed and wailed like me, others just stayed home or went away.

The reason Trump is getting so many votes even with so many others in the race for so long is because he's taking our party back to its original principles, its original philosophy, its original purpose.

I for one am deeply grateful to Donald Trump for doing that for and with US.