There's now an actual website that features some concrete (some less concrete) policy proposals that, I assume, the Trump Administration will put forward. (Scroll to the bottom of the page: under the "Making American Great Again" section, you can click on various topics, though not all are filled in.) A lot of the sections are, at this point, just fluff. But here are a few highlights that are more specific:
The section on "Immigration" includes the idiotic "build the wall" proposal, and many other harsh measures, but there's no mention of mass deportations. There is the suggestion that that issue will be revisited after the borders are "secure," which is to say he will never revisit it.
The section on "Energy Independence" makes clear that environmental concerns, including about climate change, are going out the window, in favor of letting oil companies, and coal companies, do what they want, where they want.
The section on "Transportation and Infrastructure" reaffirms a commitment to spend $550 billion on public infrastructure, which Trump mentioned in his acceptance speech. This is really quite remarkable, both for being so explicit and so dramatic an expenditure. It is sorely needed in America. This is likely to be a first point of conflict with the Tea Party lunatics in the House of Representatives.
As one would expect from a representative of the ruling class, Trump proposes to deregulate "financial services," specifically by gutting Dodd-Frank.
The Affordable Care Act will go first to the chopping block, that seems clear. An unknown is whether they will target the two provisions that are popular with well-to-do people who vote Republican: namely, the bar on insurers rejecting people with pre-existing conditions; and the ability to keep children on parents' health plans until they reach the age of 26. Previously Republican attempts to repeal the ACA have, tellingly, preserved those two. There are no meaningful details of Trump's alleged alternative.
Trump commits to the "original public meaning" view of constitutional interpretation. What, if anything, this really means we will not know until we see which judges he puts forth. (Amusingly, the folks who wrote this do not realize that the first written constitution still in force is in Sweden, not the United States!)
Nothing meaningful about Social Security or Medicare here (fluff about "modernizing" Medicare is it), which is actually a good sign. All of the actual policy is bad, except the "Transportation and Infrastructure" commitment. An unknown is how the rhetoric about tax cuts--standard fare for the imprudent wing of the ruling class--will be squared with spending $550 billion on public infrastructure, which is the only hopeful proposal.
Notice there is also nothing about LGBT rights, same-sex marriage or the like. Silence on this is also hopeful, but consistent with my hypothesis about the New Yorker Trump: he's not scared of LGBT people (Ivanka, Eric, and Donald Jr. probably are close friends with lots of them!), unlike Mike Pence and the Christian bigots.
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