Donald Trump Will Be a Good President

First, I will address the questions that my opponent put forth. 1. This all depends on the 469 seats in Congress up for election in 2016 (1). You said he has the ability to work with the Senate in your argument. So if he has the ability to work with Congress, he can try to push his agenda. 2. If we define intelligence as "the ability to learn or understand things or to deal with new or difficult situations (2)," then yes. Donald Trump can adapt, he can manipulate, he can process information and his surroundings. He is a businessman that has made millions and millions of dollars, based on licensing his brand and "making good deals." 3. I was trying to imply that in my final point, saying that he won't tackle the media and his funding of establishment candidates. However, I will point out a flaw in your argument. You say, "Trump is an establishment Republican. He likely holds the same views as establishment Republicans." But originally you were debating that he was liberal. Unless you say that Republicans are socially liberal and economically conservative. I would argue that this is untrue, if we just look at the Republican platform (3). Banning gay marriage, refusing refugees and immigrants, etc. Now, consider the current political situation in America. We have the establishment candidates dropping out of the Republican race, and the establishment Democrat is still winning (4). The only opponent to the establishment right now is one man: Bernie Sanders (if we ignore third party candidates). He has sparked a passion in Americans, perpetuating this "anti-establishment" climate and getting young people in stadiums and the polls, and collecting record breaking amounts of money (5). It's obvious that Sanders has little-to-no chance to win. Now, what is Sander's platform: Increasing the minimum wage, non-interventionism foreign policy, expanding Medicare and Social Security, oppose outsourcing, and protecting minorities of all kinds (6). Wow, exactly what you said that Trump has flirted with recently! I don't think this breaks my own rule of not comparing Trump to another candidate, by which I meant to say I wouldn't support another candidate in this debate, e.g. "Trump sucks because McAfee is better!" That doesn't point out the flaws of Trump. You say Trump has remained liberal for a long time. However, he was a member of the Reform Party in the late 1990's and early 2000's (7), which is a right-leaning moderate party, preferring conservative populism over liberalism anytime (8/9). Now let's see another book by Trump, written in 2000 (10), which was the height of Trump's political career before 2015. In the book, he supports tough anti-crime laws, capital punishment, strong citizenship requirements, toughness on China, SUPER tough immigration policies, and getting rid of Social Security (11). Those really don't sound like New York-liberal stances to me. These are good qualities that you say a President should have: A. Manipulating American People B. Further American Interests (which is something I wish you could've expanded on) C. Working with the Senate I don't think manipulating the population is a quality I want my President to have. Manipulating, as defined by Google, is "control or influence (a person or situation) cleverly, unfairly, or unscrupulously." I don't want my President, the ruler of the United States of America, to unfairly convince America to do certain things. I don't want a President that plays towards our fears and uses flowery rhetoric to get angry. I want a President that uses logic and reason to come up with good policies, and uses logic and decent communication to explain those policies. Trump is reactionary. He's a populist. And he can win. 1. https://ballotpedia.org... 2. http://www.merriam-webster.com... 3. https://www.gop.com... 4. http://www.politico.com... 5. http://www.theatlantic.com... 6. https://berniesanders.com... 7. http://www.tvguide.com... 8. http://reformparty.org... 9. https://en.wikipedia.org... 10. https://books.google.com... 11. http://www.ontheissues.org...