GOP Conservative Inconsistency Revealed

I happen to believe that within Donald Trump there is conservative compassion for people's personal sexuality.  However, he has no compassion for 1.8 billion Muslims or 11 million undocumented residents.  How Trump reconciles that internally is a puzzle to me.

Now we have the specter of the far right House of Representatives lining up behind Trump who is hardly a perfect model of policies consistent with conservatism, given his love of Putin and the Chinese leaders (absent trade of course) after they threw John Boehner out of office for being inconsistent while trying to govern the country.  But lest we forget, John Boehner likes Trump so perhaps the far right will learn to like John Boehner again.

Meanwhile, Paul Ryan is sticking to his agenda to develop a set of conservative policies that will address issues of importance to the country after 6 years of stalemate governance.  Tax Reform, sorely needed, will hopefully be at the top of his list and given the absolute need for some transparency on the issue, perhaps what would replace ObamaCare if the GOP were in charge might be next.  I could throw All Lives Matter on that list but then that would mean you would have to address background checks on gun purchases and forbid straw man purchases and the NRA opposes both of those.  There is no room for compassion in a true conservatives's policy bag.  Witness Tom Brownback's Kansas policies.

So all in all, it seems to me that all the GOP is about is having power and using it to implement their agenda, what the 5?% of the population that supports Democrats want be damned.  And what we really have in the GOP right is not an adherence to the Constitution and Democracy with respect for the views of all, with policies developed by compromise, but rather a desire for an Imperial Presidency that makes all policies only those approved by fiat by the GOP far right legislators.

I was wrong when I said the Tea Party seemed very quiet.  They are alive and well and somehow support Donald Trump. I could be wrong, but it might all be tied to his anti-Islam, anti-immigrant message and have racist core to it.  Except Donald Trump is not anti-black and believes Planned Parenthood does good work.  So the Tea Party can be inconsistent as shown by their support for entitlements that benefit the elderly while cutting entitlements that help younger people.