Speak softly and carry a big stick

What can you offer lower-income voters when you've already cut their taxes to zero, except a "refundable tax credit," also known as a straight up subsidy to voters from the American Treasury Department?

I would strongly prefer to let their wages rise naturally and organically by removing the constant downward pressure of ever-increasing numbers of low-skilled workers coming into the country to compete with Americans for an ever-shrinking pool of low-skilled jobs.

I don't hate the Reformacons for this -- I don't think they're "RINOs." They are dealing with a tough political fact -- you just can't offer more tax cuts to people already entirely removed from the tax rolls.

...That's why I strongly prefer limiting immigration. So that these people see a financial improvement without it costing me any money.

The point is, we can disfavor these things, but we cannot pretend that what Trump is proposing is so far out of the TrueCon mainstream as to be heretical.

If you didn't know the Reformacons -- Mike Lee, Marco Rubio, etc. -- were proposing this sort of "family friendly" child subsidy policy, well, that's your bad for being ignorant about a political philosophy you claim to care deeply about.

When Al Gore and John McCain were caught taking Chinese money and doing favors for donors (respectively), what did they do? They immediately began pushing the idea of Campaign Reform. Having compromised themselves on the issue, they had to become more Catholic than the Pope to make up for their own personal weakness on campaign donation issues.

That's what Trump is doing. Having compromised himself so badly and made himself so unappealing to the women whose votes he absolutely needs, he now has to throw them sops, and by sops, read "your tax money."

...Now, that said, let's not overlook the first point, which is that Trump is in this position of having to bribe women to vote for him precisely because his Strong, Tough mouth has landed him in a Weak, Yielding position.

As they say: Speak softly and carry a big stick.

Not Speak loudly and then try to payoff people with US Treasury funds after you've shot your mouth off so much you've pissed off voters.

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