Donald Trump's liberal positions rebranded as conservative

At the most recent GOP debate (December 15th on CNN) Carly Fiorina pointed out that Donald Trump said almost word for word the same thing President Obama had said a few years earlier. "We've spent $4 trillion trying to topple various people," Trump said. "If we could've spent that $4 trillion in the United States to fix our roads, our bridges and all of the other problems -- our airports and all of the other problems we've had -- we would've been a lot better off. I can tell you that right now." Last night Trump was on Jimmy Kimmel and said he didn't understand why someone would consider that a liberal position. 

He almost walked himself into the answer near the end of that clip when he said "we owe 19 trillion dollars now. We have to get our country in check". That's the conservative position. We need to stop going into debt. Liberals believe the government is responsible for everything. Conservatives limit it to a lot of the things Trump said he wanted to invest in, infrastructure and defense, but of more concern is to stop spending money we don't have. True conservatives understand that government is not a business so you can't run it like one. However they believe that we're currently over taxed, and that hurts the economy. That our leaders waste trillions and that hurts our economy. And that our defense cuts have made not only our country, but the entire world less safe.

More importantly conservatives believe in limited government. That is the cornerstone of conservatism. Government isn't here to help you as much as it's here to support you. The difference being, you are given a fair shot at unparalleled success, but failure is possible. Liberals don't want to allow anyone to fail, but at the same time restrict too much success. That being said there are plenty of liberals who have become billionaires. Trump is one of them. As the Washington Post recently reported Trump was once a liberals liberal.
The following are Trump quotes.
 "I hate abortion, but I just believe in choice". On Meet The Press
"I support the ban on assault weapons and I support a slightly longer waiting period to purchase a gun". The America We Deserve
"I’m quite liberal and getting much more liberal on health care and other things."
"If you can’t take care of your sick in the country, forget it, it’s all over. I mean, it’s no good. So I’m very liberal when it comes to health care. I believe in universal health care. I believe in whatever it takes to make people well and better. Health care, look. It’s an entitlement to this country, and too bad the world can’t be, you know, in this country. But the fact is, it’s an entitlement to this country if we’re going to have a great country". On Larry King
The marketing message of Donald Trump has changed over the past 8 years. First he went after President Obama over his birth records. That pretty much failed, but did get some on the extreme right to pay attention to him. Next he recognized that most Americans believe our porous southern border is a security risk. So he makes a general statement confirming their fears and says he would fix it with a wall. When told that building a wall would take forever and be prohibitively expensive he reverted to a liberal trick of saying others have already proven there's a better way. Trump pointed out the wall Israel is building. I say building because 13 years into it, they still have a long way to go. But since 2002 they have built 273 miles of their 440 mile wall. The wall Trump proposes is 1954 miles. or more than 5 times the length of the wall Israel has spent 13 years building. He believes ours could be completed in months. When reminded that we have spent 7 billion so far on our current wall, which is 650 miles, and this new project could run into hundreds of billions, he says Mexico will pay for it.
The overall marketing message is that our leaders are stupid, and if we had a smart leader like Donald then our problems would be fixed by him. He surrounds himself with strong American images and talks very tough. This is a very liberal message that is actually communistic. The leader of a communist country is responsible for the welfare of their citizens. In America the leader is only responsible for enforcing the laws. The President doesn't have the ability to pass laws only to veto. They can't "bomb the crap" out of an enemy only request Congress to authorize it. In other words our "leader" is supposed to be more like an implementer. Of course they should be an inspirational figure. Someone who can represent us with distinction around the world. Someone who can sway Congress with their speeches. But doesn't actually have the power to do much on their own. The reason for this is so that the will of the people can run the country. Your elected officials represent you in Congress and vote the way your community feels. If they don't they are replaced. But national problems need to be addressed by the nation. Trump is favorited by 2 groups of people. Those who don't want the people to have their way, and those who don't think Congress can fix the problems. But by turning over the power to one man you won't have elected a President, but rather a King. And eventually the will of the King is all that matters.