You know, by and large, I can’t even say I’m surprised. I didn’t expect his pro-life attitude, and I didn’t expect him to actually try to push his most outrageous ideas through the Congress. Much of that is run-of-the-mill libertarianism (I’ll even say run-of-the-mill classic Republican program a la ’64 Barry Goldwater). If you want small libertarian government and free trade with China, you have to repeal minimum wages, and environmental regulations, and antitrust laws, otherwise American companies will be at competitive disadvantage. You shouldn’t spend money on UN and UNESCO. You shouldn’t spend money demolishing missile silos that you could otherwise sell. And so on.
