Donald Trump: I'd bring back 'a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding'

Well he certainly doesn't like the Affordable Care Act, but he has been insistent that he believes that everyone should have access to health care. Like Trump, I see the ACA as an extremely bloated and comparatively weak bill (Regardless of what you may think of me, I do think single payer is the most efficient system available.), so it makes sense to me that he would want to replace it.

On the topic of the energy industry, the government is not really the one who decides how many jobs we have in it. I think that whether the government intervenes or not, continued improvement in Solar and battery technology coupled with an eventual rise in oil costs will cause the market to shift to clean energy within the next couple of decades anyway, and it will be much less painful than the government trying to force a slightly faster transition.

I think some issues are being conflated in that last paragraph. Trump has been very vocal about his opposition to Bush's war in Iraq and Hillary's involvement in Libya. And war with Iran might be an overstatement - he has stated many times that he would renegotiate the nuclear deal and impose new sanctions on Iran, but I don't think he's ever said he wants to go to war with them.

As for xenophobia and his proposed temporary ban on immigration, I would just like to point out that the Tsarnaev brothers (The Boston marathon bombers) and the female shooter in San Bernardino (who is said to have radicalized her husband) came here on tourist visas and a fiance visa, respectively. Does it not make sense that if people of a specific demographic are coming here, even if it is just a small percentage of them, you would cut off the flow of potential attackers?

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