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Originally Posted by jwb
It's hard to say. The one thing most people close to Trump agree with is that he's obsessed with "the base."
So there is definitely a certain level of opportunism there. But regardless of what the reasons for fulfilling these promises are, the fact that he sought to at least try to fulfill them is undeniable.
I mean on a base level I think he was truer to his campaign than Obama, Bush, Bill Clinton, etc.
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Absolute truth. He gives no ****s about the rest of the electorate so long as it doesn't cross some extreme threshold of unelectability (and even then often after the fact). He clearly has no barriers to his actions besides whether he thinks his base will approve. I imagine even Bill felt gross about going to that brain damaged guy's execution just to show he was tough on crime. Trump wouldn't have given it a second thought.