Of course Trump flips on GOP ideas. He never understood them in the first place.

[Zorro]

On Tuesday, President Trump blithely tweeted out his support for voter ID legislation and also “Paper Ballots as backup (old fashioned but true!)” just a week after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) killed legislation that included — wait for it — funding for paper ballots. In one throw-away line, he simultaneously reminded us why the election security issue had Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank calling McConnell a “Russian asset” and exposed himself as a simpleton: “old fashioned but true” is a pretty good indicator that in his mind, it boils down to “new-fangled, bad; old-fangled, good.”

It’s just latest example in a career of not-even-half-baked utterances that show just how poorly briefed and shallow he is. He was cunning enough to effect a hostile takeover of the Republican Party, but when it comes to articulating anything close to traditional GOP beliefs, he’s as likely to sound like the lifelong Democrat he was until Republicans tell him what to think.

If you need more evidence, go back to last year, when Trump sat down with a group of congressional leaders and said he’d get behind Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s (D-Calif.) suggestion to pass a “clean DACA bill” until House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) cut him off mid-sentence and reeled him back to the GOP position. A few weeks later, in the course of a single meeting, Trump told members of Congress not to fear the NRA, floated the idea to “take the guns first, go through due process second” as a response to gun violence and momentarily signed on to an assault weapons ban, with Feinstein nearly jumping out of her chair in delight while Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) had to laugh just to keep from crying.

Still not convinced? There’s Trump’s protectionist trade policy: tariffs with a heaping helping of soybean farmer welfare. His take on the Constitution: “I have the right to do whatever I want.” (translation: “when you’re a star, they let you do it”) His approach to the Bible: many people are saying it’s a good book. And there’s his foreign policy: NATO, bad; Russia, good; North Korea, let’s be BFFs.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/07/31/course-trump-flips-gop-ideas-he-never-understood-them-first-place/

[Mike 03]

1. I missed the tweet where he called for paper ballots

This just makes the whole Moscow Mitch thing even more painful. What an unbelievable imbecile we have as our president. How could this even happen?

[monmouth4]

2. Imbeciles voted him in, that's all I can conclude..n/t

[Midnight Writer]

3. If the Democrats don't run ads of Trump saying "take the guns first, go through due process second"

I point out to my gun humping friends that the ONLY PRESIDENT EVER to propose taking away their guns without due process is their very own Donald Trump.

They refuse to believe me. We have the tape, why don't we run it? Again and again. IMHO this is more damaging for his base than any pussy grabbing, lying, colluding, money grubbing Trump scandals.