Why do some on the right actually dislike Donald Trump?

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And they're probably right. He's going to piss off the wrong people one day and it's going to be a big disaster for our country.

He makes Republicans look bad, like they hate all immigrants, love Nazis and Russia, enjoy mocking sexual assault survivors, and the Constitution can be overturned by imperial decree, with a tweet.

You should have voted for Hillary.

Hillary ain't no great shakes, either----trust me!

She might have been the only Democrat who could have lost to Trump.

This didn't start with Trump. Conservatives have been associated with racism, sexism, and homophobia for a while now. For many reasons which are less than legitimate IMO.

I have also noticed a lot of intolerance toward conservatives starting during Obama's years.

I'll say this: If elephants go extinct, Republicans better change their party's symbol or they too will go extinct.

Now that you mention it... it is pretty ironic huh?

Of all the things you could have picked, you picked this?

Firstly, pedantically, African elephants aren't endangered. They are classed as "vulnerable" by the IUCN and the population is presently increasing. It's possible that the forest subspecies would be classified as endangered if it was considered separately, but trophy hunting tends to involve the Savannah elephant, which is abundant throughout much of its range.

In the right circumstance, properly regulated trophy hunting is good for conservation. When the locals have a financial incentive to protect the wildlife, they will. Safaris don't generate enough money to protect enough habitat against poaching. There is a very strong scientific consensus in this area, both specifically with regards to elephants and also from looking at other models. For example, a species of North American goat that was once critically endangered is now much less endangered - I can't recall the exact details, but I think it may even be considered Least Concern. I would encourage you to read the opinions of the IUCN and the WWF on this matter - safe to say there is a considerable degree of nuance.

If Trump had actually made this decision, then it would by one of the few things he has got right that Obama got wrong (the other one being bombing Assad). But he didn't even do that! He overturned the decision of his administration to ban trophy hunt imports of elephants from Zambia and Zimbabwe, despite evidence that these programmes were being properly regulated.

I'm not massively distressed about this decision - but as an animal lover, I want to see policies implemented that prioritise conservation over squeamishness.

Or share more security information, as he has already done. Remember this?: http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/05/ ... sians.html

That is the intel they don't already get to hear on his private iphone - which he continues to use in breach of security and this should alarm thoughtful USA citizens, so should the secret meetings with Putin. However, there is a perception-affecting virus circulating amongst his true believers that narrows their perception it seems.

Because there is absolutely no difference, as I'm getting sick of saying, between the policies bid Trump and those of Obama - or Bush - or Clinton. You vote for EITHER party in America and it's Big Business that wins. When will Americans learn this? Perhaps it's the fluoride in the water.

There are two main groups.

First are the "Conservatives", note the capital C. These guys are left wingers in the special ed stream, pseudo-libertarians or political know-nothings masquerading as actual "conservatives". These guys are the bland pre-Trump, Reagan fetishist interchangeable suits who populated, and still do, GoP style formations in Western democracies - think of the #nevertrumpers on twitter. Their main concern is being in office, rather than making any decisions. Their main concern in political life is not being called racist. They represent conservative failure of the past half-century in the West, being proudly non-ideological when faced with ideological opposition. They tend to be pro-immigration, pro-war and pro-free trade. It should be obvious why they do not like Trump.

Secondly there are true conservatives who can be both for and against him, depending on taste. They recognise that Trump is in the right place on trade, immigration and foreign adventures, but dislike that he is outwardly a brash moron. All of us would much prefer a somber intellect, a sort of Edmund Burke figure leading the reaction, but recognise that such men are unelectable when morons can vote and resent that.
The choices we have in this increasingly Weimarish world are choices like vote Hillary vs voting to let loose a bull in a left-wing china shop, a bull that excretes explosives from every orifice. I think the choice this group makes is based on where hope lies. Either hope for that magical leader who never appears or cynically accepting that the extremes of populism are coming back and what hope there is lies in destroying the Left and rebuilding from the ashes.

Except one's racist.

Both have presided over the destruction of the civil rights of and the appropriation of the wealth of the black and Latino population; the only difference is that Hilary makes a pretence of egalitarianism because she's the Big Business candidate directed at gullible students, while Trump needn't make any such pretence, being the Big Business candidate directed at the white working class. Both are owned by Big Business and both have precisely the same policies on every remotely important issue. Being asked to make a decision between one or the other is as ridiculous as being asked what colour socks you'd like the man burgling you to be wearing.

A "better alternative" doesn't mean "Good option"
Even if you had to choose between Governor ratcliffe and Cruella de Vil (Disney villains) for supreme world leader doesn't mean you would want either.

I think Trump is terrible on trade.

He's making consumer products more expensive with tariffs.

He's a declared "nationalist" who appears to dislike free markets, and dislike "laissez faire capitalism".

He publicly threatens companies who decide to move some of their operations outside the US (Comier, Harley-Davidson, Oreo ...).

He appears to use tariffs to favor select businesses, and select workers. Like, Whirlpool company asked him for help because they couldn't compete, and he created a "washing machine tariff" just for them. How, un-American.

He's creating "bailout funds" to offset his tariffs, like Farmer's 12 Billion dollar bailout fund.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/27/trump-f ... elief.html

Just think about that, he's creating industry bailout funds to offset his policies.

That's especially bad, since Trump is running 1 Trillion dollar deficits.

He's got America into a trade war that America won't "win", unless we experience a huge decline in our standard of living.

He's publicly said his trade policies are very similar to Socialist Bernie Sanders.
https://www.politifact.com/north-caroli ... re-very-s/

Only some low-information conservatives would believe Trump has it right on trade.

High-information conservatives will see through this phony.

There are (thank goodness) still Republicans who regard the binary hatred driven by right wing tribalists with sincere distaste; they refuse to parrot the lies spewing out of the the White House as an extraordinary rate, and take them up and be part of the catch cries of the clamouring Trumo mob, unfashionable though that is with Trump's true believers.
They refuse to sacrifice their integrity to the confused adulation a conman.

"You can resolve to live your life with integrity; let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me". - Alexander Solshenitsyn. (Italics mine).

A more germane question might be phrased; "Why does anyone on the Right actually like Trump?", other than the glaringly obvious; he hates the same minorities as they do.