Things to consider going forward.
Quote from Trump and Pence:
In one blasé comment, Vice President-elect Mike Pence buried the party of free-market capitalism.
After he and President-elect Donald Trump secured an arrangement with Carrier to preserve a manufacturing plant in the governor’s home state, Pence justified the deal in an interview with the New York Times, telling reporters, “The free market has been sorting it out and America’s been losing.”
The GOP, the party of free trade, the party of free enterprise, the party of nonintervention, apparently died on Nov. 8, 2016. “This is the way it’s going to be,” Trump told The Times. “Corporate America is going to have to understand that we have to take care of our workers also.”
http://www.salon.com/2016/12/02/mike-pence-abandons-reaganomics-the-free-market-has-been-sorting-it-out-and-americas-been-losing/
“For God’s sake, it’s Stephen Moore!” the source said, explaining some of the lawmakers’ reactions to Moore’s statement. “He’s the guy who started Club for Growth. He’s Mr. Supply Side economics.”
“I think it’s going to take them a little time to process what does this all mean,” the source added of the lawmakers. “The vast majority of them were on the wrong side. They didn’t think this was going to happen.”
Asked about his comments to the GOP lawmakers, Moore told The Hill he was giving them a dose of reality.
“Just as Reagan converted the GOP into a conservative party, Trump has converted the GOP into a populist working-class party,” Moore said in an interview Wednesday. “In some ways this will be good for conservatives and in other ways possibly frustrating.”
Moore has spent much of his career advocating for huge tax and spending cuts and free trade. He’s been as close to a purist ideological conservative as they come, but he says the experience of traveling around Rust Belt states to support Trump has altered his politics.
“It turned me more into a populist,” he said, expressing frustration with the way some in the Beltway media dismissed the economic concerns of voters in states like Ohio, Pennsylvania and Michigan.
“Having spent the last three or four months on the campaign trail, it opens your eyes to the everyday anxieties and financial stress people are facing,” Moore added. “I’m pro-immigration and pro-trade, but we better make sure as we pursue these policies we’re not creating economic undertow in these areas.”
After such a transformative experience — and after witnessing Trump’s stunning victory — Moore now believes Republican House members should be less ideologically pure and instead help Trump give the voters what he promised them.
http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/307462-trump-adviser-tells-house-republicans-youre-no-longer-reagans-party
We can question whether they are really sincere but we dont' try to one up them on this at our own peril.
