Donald Trump, the Republican nominee for president, takes a number of positions, particularly on economic issues, that are directly at odds with those held dear by the conservative movement.
A great example is Trump’s apparent embrace of hiking the minimum wage. Although he has not (yet) endorsed an increase as great as the $12 touted by Hillary Clinton and the $15 pushed by Bernie Sanders and other labor advocates, Trump has said he would support a hike to get the national pay floor to at least $10, an idea that conservatives view as anti-market anathema.
On trade, Trump is solidly to the left of Clinton. While the Democratic nominee has attempted to position herself as a skeptic of trade deals that she enthusiastically embraced in the past, including the Trans-Pacific Partnership, Trump has been an avowed foe of free trade deals that he blames for the departure of U.S. jobs. Similar to left-wing voices, such as Sanders, Trump has regularly suggested the federal government take a hardline against companies that move jobs abroad.
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