Tim, I see what you mean but I still think the asymmetrical treatment is obvious. More interesting is the question whether Trump actually has a coherent political philosophy or not. I think he does, and here it is, in one paragraph.
He's focused on the good of the American people, rather than the worldwide triumph of some abstract ideology. Accordingly he wants effective borders to prevent further illegal immigration, prudent policies of legal immigration to avoid nurturing internal cultural conflict, trade barriers where domestic industries require protection, and is less favorable to military interventionism than his predecessors. On other issues, he favors pragmatic solutions (in the spirit of his business orientation) over ideological ones, which is why he says he's very open on many subjects and can change his mind.
That's a reasonable political philosophy, that will also return the US to a certain anthropological normality by which they will (hopefully) stop trying to re-engineer the whole Earth to their standards, creating large problems for everyone in the process.
Of Trump and Clinton, Clinton is the hawk and the neoconservative. She's the one possessed by the messianic progressive ideology. So she's the dangerous one, the one who, while talking about democracy and progress, will make a mess of other countries.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/24/magazine/how-hillary-clinton-became-a-hawk.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/01/opinion/sunday/donald-the-dove-hillary-the-hawk.html
And that's from a liberal, Clinton-supporting newspaper!
He's focused on the good of the American people, rather than the worldwide triumph of some abstract ideology. Accordingly he wants effective borders to prevent further illegal immigration, prudent policies of legal immigration to avoid nurturing internal cultural conflict, trade barriers where domestic industries require protection, and is less favorable to military interventionism than his predecessors. On other issues, he favors pragmatic solutions (in the spirit of his business orientation) over ideological ones, which is why he says he's very open on many subjects and can change his mind.
That's a reasonable political philosophy, that will also return the US to a certain anthropological normality by which they will (hopefully) stop trying to re-engineer the whole Earth to their standards, creating large problems for everyone in the process.
Of Trump and Clinton, Clinton is the hawk and the neoconservative. She's the one possessed by the messianic progressive ideology. So she's the dangerous one, the one who, while talking about democracy and progress, will make a mess of other countries.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/24/magazine/how-hillary-clinton-became-a-hawk.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/01/opinion/sunday/donald-the-dove-hillary-the-hawk.html
And that's from a liberal, Clinton-supporting newspaper!