I won’t be voting for Trump, but I’m still concerned he might win re-election. I think many people feel similarly — otherwise, why do so many people keep talking about the election and the polling? I’ve often wondered why so many people will vote for Trump, despite his many cataclysmic negative personal qualities.
I’m glad that Chloe Valdary asked Trump voters to respond to her Twitter account by stating why they support Trump. She has received more than 300 responses that I found interesting to review. These responses don’t change my mind about Trump, but I do see many Trump supporters in a different light.
I have already cast my vote via absentee ballot, and did not vote for Trump. Perhaps an explanation is in your own post, “What Trump Actually Said About the Use of Disinfectants as a Potential Cure to Coronavirus.” Look carefully at criticism of him. It’s is style over substance. His speech is execrable. What he has done as President is not so bad.
He enabled the return of many hundreds of billions of dollars locked overseas that has already been taxed by the authority within which it was earned, kept pinned in place by taxation policies that want to wring every last nickel out of it. He reversed fifty years of government policy: Give away the farm on foreign trade. He is the first President in fifty years to increase wages, and to increase Hispanic and African-American wages at a faster pace than whites. He achieved The First Step Act, addressing real issues of unequal treatment in our judicial system. He is the first President to provide targeted assistance to Historically Black Universities and Colleges.
This repeats itself over and over. “He upset our allies.” Yes, and about damned time. Every member of an alliance needs to benefit from it. We’ve benefited by being allowed to pay everyone else’s freight.
I’m calling you out on attempting to practice medicine without a license. In the post “What Trump actually said …” you throw around narcissist, pathological liar and similar medical diagnoses. I thought you went to law school, but apparently you went to medical school. Need I remind you that the ethics of psychiatry prohibit a practitioner from offering a diagnosis of anyone he has not met and assessed?
I became critical of Trump well before it was fashionable. When he came to the fore in the 1970s I saw how he was making his money. He was schmoozing politicians to tilt the playing field in his favor. He didn’t inherit his wealth, he’s not a brilliant businessman, he’s a crony capitalist. I was still a yellow dog Democrat at the time, and my friends asked me why I was so opposed to him. “He’s one of us.” Yes, he was a Democrat. No, he’s not one of anybody I want to be. Nothing has changed in fifty years except his party registration, which appears to be a major source of criticism of him. The other source is that he won an election in 2016 that left the Left dumbfounded. He didn’t so much win as Clinton lost. For someone supposed to be a crafty politician, she sure missed the obvious: You can’t make 35% of the electorate “The Enemy” and expect them to continue rolling over for you. Heterosexual white males finally had enough.
There’s a lot more to say, but I’ll leave it for now. I don’t agree with Trump supporters, but I accept where they are coming from.