Right wingers who support Trump, why?
It's been about two months into Trump's second term and I think we have an idea of where it's heading.
The stock market's been doing progressively worse since he's taken office. Economists are projecting his trade war to hurt average people even more when they were already struggling under Biden. His suggestion of increases tariffs flies in the face of free trade and free enterprise. His saber rattling with our biggest trade partners like Mexico and Canada has hurt our relationships with them. His stance on labor unions and federal spending on domestic issues are going to hurt the average person more (for example wanting to eliminate the Department of Education and protections for national parks). His hostility towards foreign aide programs like USAID are going to cause worse migrant crises which likely will end up at our border. His hostility towards college protestors seems to fly in the face of free speech and open exploration of ideas. He has the richest man in the world at best being his cheerleader and at worst dictating his policies. Elon wanting us to step out of NATO is going to reduce our strength and influence on the global stage. Figures close to Trump like Steve Bannon suggesting Trump should run for a third term flies in the face of the Constitution as does Vance's insistance that courts have no ability to limit executive power.
Basically, nothing Trump is doing appears to be in the best interests of the American people in general and flies in the face of a lot of traditional conservative values (and this isn't even getting into his very public infidelity and close ties to Epstein).
So my question more succinctly put is: what about Trump on his own merits (that is without doing whataboutisms about Biden or Obama or whatever) warrants support from conservatives? He seems to be antithetical to a lot of the things I was told by my conservative family members conservatives stand for.
He's bad for the economy, bad for America's global strength and leader of the free world, bad for our Constitutional freedoms and the checks and balances laid out therein, bad in terms of Christian values as evidenced by his cheating and constant false statements, bad for the wellbeing of the family unit in terms of economic standing, access to education, and even ability to enjoy our country's natural beauty, and bad for representing the common man by cozying up to the richest man on earth and having a bunch of big tech billionaires have front row seats to his inauguration. Again, without whataboutisms, how do you defend this?