to my GOP friends a question from the way back machine

I have many friends who used to and many who continue to describe themselves as Republicans,  For you I have a quick thought experiment.  If I had asked you 11 years ago if you would vote for or support the following positions from the president

1.  ending the independence of the FED (in my money and banking class in 1988 this was sacrosanct and unquestioned, now not so much)---while at it fire the head of the BLS because they don't like the unemployment numbers

2.  being pro random universal tariffs to reward and punish individual countries and companies

3.  the government taking ownership stakes in companies and profit sharing

4.  a budget that added 3.4 trillion to the national deficit with dynamic scoring (and only 3 trillion without dynamic scoring---ie the president and his party managed to create a budget that cuts taxes and hurts growth--something I have never seen in half a century)

5.  a president who would put his image on our currency

6.  a president who would ignore the emoluments clause and watch his net worth grow by $3 billion in his first 10 months in office--including trading weapons and AI chips for businesses deals with his companies with Islamic state supporting countries

7. a president who would go to war with Venezuela for ...well its not clear either their oil reserves or because he doesn't like Maduro and blow up ships in the Caribbean because he says they have drugs on board

8.  a president who would increase the DHS budget (department of homeland security ) to over 100 billion per year.  Only the US, China and Russia have a defense budget larger than the US DHS budget--the DHS budget is now more than double the Israel defense budget

9.  would suspend habeas corpus.  Have masked unidentified agents arrest and deport people without due process

10.  would call out the national guard and the active military over the wishes of mayors and governors to attack peaceful protestors who disagreed with the suspension of habeas corpus

11.  would demand comedians lose their job, use the power of the federal government (FCC and FTC) to control the media

12.  would side with Russia in a hot war Russia started in Europe over Europeans

13.  would weaken NATO by questioning article 5

14.  would put an anti-vax tin foil hat leader as head of HHS and watch measles rates in the US hit the highest in 20 years 

15.  would demand/ expect tribute from companies (FIFA peace prize, Apple gold thing etc)

ok I am going to stop, but this list could go on and on and on.  Would a Reagan, Bush 1 or 2, Ford, Nixon Romney Republican vote for this?  NO.  No no.   GOP frogs please jump out of the boiling water and realize the current party leader is not someone you would have ever considered voting for a decade ago.