Do Trump voters feel cheated by his policies?

Lets park aside the culture war for one second...

Donald Trump became President on a populist ticket which claimed to represent the interests of the little man against Wall Street. His platform was protectionist against free-trade, interventionist in favour of infrastructure spending, as well as hinting at curbing the power of big business.

Trump has opted out of T-TIP but has done nothing to change NAFTA or apply tariffs. He has cut taxes for big businesses and the rich. He has a cabinet stacked with ex-Wall Street people. In short; his economic program is conventional right-wing Republican. Also; Trump claimed to be anti-war but morphed into a hawk on Syria, Isreal, N Korea and perhaps Iran.

You can make a case for any of these policies (though I would disagree). The fact remains though that the impact of Trump is pretty much exactly the same as George W. Bush would have had if he had come to power in 2017, just taken one step further and with added chaos and controversy. Even the tax cuts have echoes of Bush because, like Dubya's own tax cut, it has greatly increased the deficit at a time of economic growth. I'm sure people remember how that worked out.

Trump was meant to be something new; an 'anti-establishment' candidate who would drain the swamp and change the system. In reality, a vote for Trump is a vote for the same 'globalist' trickle-down economics which has dominated the Anglo-phone world since the 1980s, depressed wages and increased inequality.

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Northwest · M

The reality of the situation is that Trump's supporters believe that he has done all the things he said he did. They've never fact checked him, and they never will.

They think he cancelled NAFTA.

They think that if he had not been elected, the TPP would have gone through, even though Hillary said she did not support it.

They think he killed ISIS, when it was a by the book, execution of the plan that was underway.

They think he's responsible for the 4.1% unemployment rate, and don't want to consider that the numbers, by the time President Obama left office (4.3%), were correct.

They think that companies already brimming with cash, will create jobs, for the sake of job creation, as opposed to when there is demand for their products/ideas.

They don't understand the situation in the Middle East, N. Korea, or Afghanistan, so they don't know what they think.

They think that Trump is standing up to Pakistan, when he delayed a $200+M payment, when in fact, in 2016, the US held up a $300M payment to Pakistan, to punish Pakistan for being two-faced.

They believe the tax cut benefits them. It does, but relatively speaking, it benefits the 1% and corporate America, infinitely more.

They think that the stock market drive, is their salvation, but they don't understand that stock market speculative trading, is not an economic solution.

TexChick will jump in, because Trump's agenda was "questioned". She will call you names, and then more names. She will make shit up, and when pressed for details, she will call you more names.

theonetheywarnedyouabout, will jump in with a meme and perhaps some name calling, and then crawl back under his rock.

lascar will jump in to call you names, and lie some more about his life in paradise.

Did I miss anyone? and they are the microcosm of Trump's supporters out there. The people who think Trump is losing money, by being President, when a single change to the tax code: elimination of the estate tax, IF his holdings are as large as he says they are, will save his family $Bs. That would be in addition to his son--in-law's business holdings, that continue to increase, as Israeli and Saudi financial concerns, pump money into his company.

The biggest con job ever pulled not only on America, but the entire world, and the victims are cheering. Kind of like peasants cheering nobility, and feeling that their duty is to protect them, back in medieval Europe.

Burnley123 · 41-45, M

@Northwest
[quote]TexChick will jump in, because Trump's agenda was "questioned". She will call you names, and then more names. She will make shit up, and when pressed for details, she will call you more names.

theonetheywarnedyouabout, will jump in with a meme and perhaps some name calling, and then crawl back under his rock.

lascar will jump in to call you names, and lie some more about his life in paradise.[/quote]

I don't know if you read their comments before posting or you didn't but yeah, its not hard to predict that. 😜 Bingo

Northwest · M

@Burnley123 Not hard to predict. If you go through the posts I start here, it's a reflection of what they do on my posts. I skipped a few posters, because they block me now, so if they comment on this post, I can't see it :-)

Burnley123 · 41-45, M

@Northwest I believe you. I have also been blocked by the same people as you. The three you mention are the Trumpsters who insult but don't block. Those who block people for disagreeing (which I think is about 80% of them) are long gone from my vision on SW.

Northwest · M

@Burnley123 yes, I don’t consider them a loss. They’re not comfortable outside their own echo chamber. What amazes me though is that they seem to be omnipresent, with nothing else to do, and they are so predictable.