Is Donald Trump a Flip-Flopper or a Whily Politician?
On Twitter, Erick Erickson, a Republican who until last year edited the Web site Red State, wrote, “Trump’s flip flops extend to fundamental reasons for his campaign,” and linked to a BuzzFeed piece recalling how in 1999, while Trump was considering running against Pat Buchanan for the Reform Party nomination, he cast himself as the champion of “Jews, blacks, gays, and Mexicans.”
.. He has clearly decided that he would rather be accused of flip-flopping than of promoting unpopular policies, and he is once again demonstrating that he is perfectly willing to discard some of the central tenets of modern Republicanism in order to court disgruntled middle-class voters whose wages have been stagnant for decades.
.. (His pledge to self-finance his campaign is also falling by the wayside.) But his central response is already visible. He is putting together an economic platform that is unlike anything the Republican Party has offered for decades, and that is intended to send a clear message: yes, I’m a billionaire, but I’m a billionaire who gets it.