Do you see anything wrong with Trump?
Not just little things like "using impolite language", but anything deeper, more serious?
If there is anything, what would it be? Precisely? Candidly? Honestly?
Or is he the perfect Presidential candidate for you?
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I posted this list a long time ago, but I will repeat it, as best I remember it is the same, but maybe not. My perception of Trump has changed some since last April.
1, Trump is a Yankee. He will do nothing to protect the cultural heritage of our nation. There is no money to be made from it.
2. He is too soft on the homosexual rights issue and thinks transexuals should be able to use the restroom of their choice and that we should have *** marriage.
3. He is a problem solver and while that is good for the effort of restoring and rebuilding infrastructure and putting things to right in government processes, etc, I dont think he is going to like that he is going to have to work within a Constitutional framework, or at least should. I think he is going to over step many bounds and a Republican Congress will be too lenient and let him get away with too much, but they let Obama get away with murder, literally, so maybe it is moot since the GOP Congress has no balls to do a damned thing anyway. I dont think he will reach for as much power as Hillary will, but what he will reach for he will get, and I dont think Congress will be able to stop him. Congress will continue its slide into weakness and rubber stampery.
4. Trump is reflexively opposed to socialism, like 99% of Republicans, and I think we are going to have to eventually move in the direction of Nordic Model socialism due to the Robotics Revolution. He is going to retard that movement and that could be disastrous in some respects, if say he fails to take appropriate action because he thinks the economy should be doing something it wont because the whole game is changed due to Strong AI Robotics. I suspect he may be inflexible in his opposition to Nordic Model Socialism just because of the word 'socialism'.
5. I am concerned about the national deficit, and would like to see more cuts accompanying his tax cuts, but I would rather risk more deficit than continue on in the failed direction we have been going the last 8 years.
6. I dont think Trump has a strong libertarian or civil rights streak in him. That is concerning to me, but in contrast to Hillary Trump is a rabid Randian Objectivist. I am not an ideological libertarian, just a small 'l' libertarian who has deep regard for civil rights in the historical sense of the term, and I am not sure that Trump has enough grounding in that area of thought to recognize and respect the proper limits and scope of his authority as President. But compared to Hillary, lolol, it is no contest.
7. I am afraid that Trump might return our civilian police force toward a militarizing direction and that is worrying. Police need our full support, no doubt, but I dont like the idea of these paramilitary forces having tanks and aircraft except for very limited purposes. Training police to use military tactics is wrong because civilians are not the enemy on the battlefield. I think Trump will restart this effort. The police need to move in the other direction, returning to their traditional roles as peace officers and accomplishing their job mostly by having the community on its side, and developing ties to it. In some communities we all know the police are viewed as the enemy by a good portion of it. That needs to change and outreach needs to be made. I dont know if the latter is even on Trumps radar.
8. I am afraid that Trump has a tin ear when it comes to the black community. He needs to get advisers who have standing in the leadership of the black community and follow their advice, not in betraying his principles but in learning how to best and most effectively present his principles to the black community and which are the principles that would best attract their support. He needs to develop a feel for what the underclass of American needs across the board and though jobs are a good start, there needs to be more. Right now I think he is projecting the standards of the successful black Middle Class onto lower income black communities and his message is failing to reach them. The great divide between the lower working class and the permanently impoverished underclass is going to widen under his leadership, unless he adjusts his agenda a bit to do something to target them, like maybe urban tax free zones, or something. I dont know enough about the lower class urban black community to even speculate really, but when I hear Trump talking about what he wants to do for the black community he sounds like he is talking to the successful middle class black community and not really going any further than that. I am not sure he even realizes it. But certainly cutting down the large black market labor of illegal aliens is a good start.
9. I am concerned for the moral example that Trump presents, but at least he is not a crook or an incompetent or a traitor. It is going to take more than a few prayer calls for Trump to gain credibility as a moral leader and I think that is important, but of secondary importance for a President.
10. Trump is a doer, not a deep thinker. He wants to get things done and he recruits advisers to give him guidelines on how to do it and then Trump hires a top crew to get that job done. As an engineer I know that that process is often insufficient for the really difficult and complex jobs and Trump needs to let the top guys completely lead in those efforts, and I wonder if he has the humility to step aside in those cases and give them free reign and let the horses run.
There are more things, but again, when I compare him to Hillary
I have no doubt that this country would be better under a megalomaniac successful builder than a sociopathic liar who has been taking bribes from foreign governments and .has accomplished not one major thing in her entire career other than to build up an impressive resume and skirt the law for 40 years.
