Would getting rid of Trump make America better for its citizens in material terms?

Yes he is loud and abysmal but his policy program (as Paul Krugman has said) is standard right Republican + corruption + incompetence. President Pence won't feed your children and President Clinton won't stop drone strikes or inequality. Its great to have a symbol to unite against and I agree with all the criticisms. If you want a progressive America, it needs more comprehensive change though.

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swirlie · 31-35, F

Yes, it would be better for all concerned if Trump resigned. I don't mean that he should be impeached, I just mean that he should do the right thing and resign, like Nixon did. Nixon resigned when his impeachment was imminent.

My opinion is not a focus on Trump's policy program or the Republican Party itself, versus the Democrats; it is actually about the wrong message Trump as a human being, is giving to the rest of the world about what America is all about as a nation of people. This wrong message includes the kind of obtuse, anti-social behavior of Trumps's that some Americans are strongly defending as being socially acceptable protocol, whenever Trump speaks or tweets his immediate thoughts.

Those Americans who support that Trump-style of behavioral dysfunction need also take a long look at resigning themselves from that same anti-social, condescending mentality that only keeps them very small in a very big world... or at least keep it to themselves and remain in complete silence.