The base-line reason for all the spittle-flecked aversion to Donald J. Trump as our president is, let’s be frank, snobbery. The elites on both US coasts cannot abide that Americans in fly-over country have gained the upper hand ... and no longer accept their self-serving decisions on immigration, trade, energy, race relations, managing our economy and foreign affairs. This upstart Trump knows not of the way things are supposed to be ... and so he, along with his long ties and orange hair, needs to go back to reality TV and let his betters run things ... back to the way they used to be ... when they got the cake and middle America got the crumbs.
You have blinders on. For decades, we have seen Donald Trump as a blowhard, elitist, New York construction capo so incredibly full of himself that he launches and fails at all sorts of businesses. His ego trip has been a marvel to watch through his college days, his Playboy era, his Howard Stern appearances, and The Apprentice. New Yorkers do not by majority like him. Contractors who did construction for him do not like him. It was hard to imagine anyone in 2016 who could have been more abrasive at shoving and hurling insults to get attention. Maybe Don Rickles.
ReplyDeleteHe has does Bannon's bidding by subverting the dominant paradigm. But once you tear everything down, you need to build anew. And, strangely, for a guy who built highrise buildings, you would expect some well-crafted architectural plans but that will be the next CEOs job.
A lot of what you say is true ... but, to 63 million Americans in 2016, he said what they wanted to hear ... and is doing his damnedest to follow through on these promises. You dislike his personality and I like his policies. Which is more important?
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