beagle9
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Exactly why Trump was elected, and now it's on him if he screws it up. He has the commoners/workers/families as you described them now on his side, so it's his to mess up if he messes it up. I don't think he will.I agree with that part. We, people who log on to a message board each day and quibble about politics, are in the minority; most people live fairly simple lives, punching a clock, having dinner with the kids, drinking Bud Light and playing Cornhole on the weekends, with a week-long trip to Hilton Head each summer, that kind of thing. They don't want to have to dig into every little nuance of politics; they just want to keep their taxes low and the plant open, and maybe one day their kids can go to college. The problem is that for the last few decades, they have been progressively more and more ignored by both parties, each clamoring to optimize their message so they can WINWINWIN rather than serve the people. So then, when the President institutes an "It's not a tax!" tax that doubles their health insurance rates so poor people can get health coverage, and then they hear that their buddy has just lost his job because his plant is moving to Mexico, they've had enough of the ivory tower Tammany Hall Democrats, and they vote in the local 34-year-old junior DA to go to DC, tasked with keeping the taxes low and the plant open. The problem is, the new US Rep, from his basement office with the dripping pipes, gets dragged into the McConnell-Ryan orbit and is told they have to march the party line or else; after a few months or years of this, that struggling person in the heartland is still worried about the rising taxes and closing plants, and all they hear their new House Rep talk about is who gets to piss in which bathroom. It isn't hard to imagine why this majority of hard-working, American-values voters want to burn the whole damn system to the ground. It's rather understandable.If the Demon-crats and republi-crats hadn't have made such a dam disaster in this nation over the years, then we wouldn't be in the situation we are in today. Now it's fix it time... The nation was great in a bubble between certain time periods, and we can repair those bubbles for all to enjoy once again.Dispense with the code of law. And the Trumpians cheer!
Cozy up the the Russians and the Trumpians Cheer!
Diss our allies, leave agreements, impose tariffs and the Trumpians cheer!
What is it about America they think needs to be great again? A lack of Authoritarian control?
We had great relations between blacks and whites during the seventies, eighties, and nineties. Then came the surge of corruption to destroy it, back it all up, and then we elected Obama to finish the situation off or to lead us into the fixes we see now under Trump, and for which are thankfully underway.
What idiots the nation had become since the 1960's foward if we lose it all ?? Think about that one..
Now Trump is trying to restore things as best he can, but the pride of those who are amongst (the Demon-crats), and for whom were instrumental in getting Trump elected to begin with, are crying fowel, and now they are knashing of teeth over it all.
It's just too funny when look at the big picture in it all.
The problem, of course, is that a population of people that are this frustrated and fed up can be vulnerable to being weaponized by a powerful demagogue, and that's exactly what happened - but I'll leave those ramblings for other posts.