You know how whenever someone asks Trump supporters here to come forward with a clear, articulate, straightforward statement of why they support him, no one ever does? Well today, at the invitation of the NYTimes, ALL the letters to the editor are clear, articulate, straightforward statements of why the writers support Donald Trump. Definitely worth reading. There are 15, unless I counted wrong.
This is the paper’s preamble:
All the letters are signed with the person’s full name and city. Obviously, I can’t quote all of them, but here is the first one, and it is representative:
Generally people are bothered by Trump’s crudeness, but many like his bullying stance toward the rest of the world. They give him credit for the tax cut (do they know it’s going to expire in a few years?), for defeating ISIS, for low unemployment and the booming stock market. I’m surprised they don’t give him credit for gravity. They would like to see a path for the Dreamers to citizenship, but the kids shouldn’t delude themselves that they deserve it.
Speaking of delusions, I see a lot of that in these letters.
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Actually it’s easy to argue with it. Trump inherited an economy that was headed in that direction under the “business-hostile” Obama administration. His promises to fatten corporate wallets only accelerated the rate.
His jobs creation totals are behind Obama’s totals from last year and unemployment has only dropped from 4.9 to 4.1% during his first year.
(Unemployment statement using typical Trump logic)
I don’t get any sense of how the DC political class is handling ‘drain the swamp’ - it’s clearly a strong sentiment among the electorate but you never see any comments.
Is everyone in Washington kind of hoping it goes away so they get back to good ole bribery and corruption?
The US stock market underperformed the Eurozone with Trump as president while it typically outperformed the same under Obama. Getting worse relative to the global economy. Sad.
Are we comparing Presidents based on their first year in office vs. previous Presidents’ first year in office, previous Presidents’ last year in office, or something else? And what are Presidents responsible for, specifically?
Now you liberals are crying that the unemployment rate ONLY dropped by 16% in his first year? No other President had that big of a drop during their first year. And you give Obama credit for the stock market, but now that it has hit record levels, President Trump had nothing to do with it? Liberal logic for you. Look at all the companies giving bonuses and raises because of the tax cut - only liberals still butt-hurt by the election would cry about more money staying in peoples pockets.
As for what Presidents are responsible for, apparently in the hearts and minds if thump supporters, he is responsible for the rising and setting of the sun. And gravity.
A great side effect of the Trump presidency is that people are starting to realize that the President does not control the stock market or the economy. I don’t expect it to last but for now it is nice.
In fact, the DJIA’s progress so far has been remarkably similar to when Obama was in office. Only Obama was pulling it out of an economic collapse while Trump inherited a working economy.
To which the correct reply is that the debt went up significantly because of the tax structure, economy, and obligations (wars) that he inherited from Bush rather than policies Obama put in place.