If one looks at Trump’s personal life and business career, one might suspect that his claims to be a conservative nativist are a bit of an act, since his background suggests anything but antagonism to “furriners” (his own family came thorugh Ellis Island, not the Mayflower, and he’s married foreigners), and that he supports big government (which means high taxes) that supports corporate welfare and bailouts. While other media types have run for office, they get “out of character” whereas Trump is running as the character he developed for his “reality” TV shows. What he actually supports is anyone’s guess.
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