Flexibility

So now the anti-Trumpsters have homed in on the notion that Trump may not inflexibly insist that every single position he stakes out will be implemented as proposed.  That's presented as somehow being evidence that he's a bait-and-switch guy.

Really?  You've got to be kidding.  For years we've gotten nothing but complaints of gridlock on the Beltway - that extremists in power just dig in their heels with the result that, in the absence of a middle, nothing whatsoever gets done.

With that background, Trump comes along and describes policies he prefers, some of which are surely extreme, but increasingly indicates that he's open to discussing and massaging those policies.  I saw this coming in my very first post.  So the ship would get steered toward his policies, which may actually be fundamentally preferable policies (certainly, it's starting to look like the electorate thinks so), but possibly with substantial refinements incorporated out of deference for the strongly-held beliefs of those on the other side.  

This is bad?!?  That he's willing to discuss, cajole, negotiate, etc., to get things actually done is somehow a negative?  Flexibility, then, is a trait to be disdained.  Yeah.  Right.

I guess the Republican nominee's head of steam is becoming a bit daunting.  But do the people looking for anything . . . anything . . . insulting to say about him pause for even a second to think about what they're actually saying?  Grasping at straws in the face of is one thing, but the attempted vilification of a willingness to be flexible is hilarious, just hilarious.