In a “watching-a-train-wreck-in-slow-motion” sort of way, yes.
In every other possible way, NO.
Is your income in the range of $500K-1M? Because that’s the group getting the biggest benefit from the tax cuts.
Regardless of who benefits, there were no corresponding spending cuts so the tax cut is costing this country over $2.3 trillion over a decade.
Accepted Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
I’m curious why you support this. I’m sure that Israel was happy but this damages the U.S.'s position as an honest broker in helping to mediate the resolution of the Israel/Palestine conflict. Even if you think that Jerusalem should be the accepted capital of Israel, this was not a good way for the U.S. to go about it.
Unemployment (including minority unemployment) at historic lows.
Unemployment has dropped every year since 2009. What Trump policies are
contributing to low unemployment?
Forging a new relationship with North Korea.
What new relationship do you mean? There has been no substantive change in our relationship with North Korea. The leaders had a nice meeting and Trump praised a murderous dictator. It was all show on both sides. North Korea has not moved towards denuclearization in spite of Trump’s false claims.
Two awesome SCOTUS appointments (and countless other federal judicial appointments).
Competent but I don’t know what’s so awesome about them. McConnell and Trump have created a watershed moment to politicize the Supreme Court starting with the refusal to even conduct confirmation hearings for Garland. This may be good in the short term for the Republicans in power but is not good for the country.
Stopping the madness on Climate Change hysteria.
Where is the “madness”? What is the “hysteria”? Do you mean the consensus opinion of the entire scientific community based on fact?
Eliminated the Individual Mandate.
This is part of the effort to undermine the ACA without providing any alternative in its place.
Enacted Right-to-Try legislation.
Looks good politically but there is doubt this will have any practical benefit to patients.
Stock market boom.
You mean the downturn of the last two months that wiped out the past 12 months’ gains? That boom? Before Trump was elected the market was on an upward trend since at least January 2016. Corporate tax cuts were also encouraging to business (but see also the uncompensated cost of tax cuts discussed above).
Renegotiation of NAFTA to the USA’s benefit.
Why do you think it is to the USA’s benefit? It’s overly protectionist, and is likely to have long-term harm to our auto industry’s ability to compete with Asian and European automakers.
Sending troops to the southern border to combat invasion by illegals.
There is no “invasion.” There is no need for “combat.” This is not an armed military incursion. This is a bunch of people who want to seek asylum in the U.S. You can’t consider them illegal aliens (i.e., undocumented) if they are not even in the U.S. I don’t particularly like how they’re doing it and I think it’s not going to get them what they want. But your statement buys into Trump’s propaganda that we are somehow in grave danger from a group of desperate people on foot with their children trying to find a better life. "…the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger.” — Herman Goering at the Nuremberg trials
I can envision very few scenarios in which I would be “happy” that a particular individual were President.
…“why he believes these things” and “accepting that he believes those things” are two different things. Tim R. Mortiss listed a whole host of reasons why he voted for Trump. If you refuse to accept that he believes those things then that is your issue, not his.
People have agency. If Tim states that he thinks the two SCOTUS appointments were awesome: why can’t you accept that Tim thinks they are awesome? Can’t he make up his own mind?
Of course you can debate the veracity of what Tim has said. But that has nothing to do with why Tim voted for Trump.
No we don’t. Many Trump supporters know that Trump is not telling the truth. They simply don’t care.
Why does this matter? I didn’t see “Trump always tells the truth” on Tim’s list of why he voted for Trump. It clearly wasn’t important. Its important to you and I’m going to assume you voted accordingly.
Tim’s list begs to differ. Its not about “blind faith.” Tax cuts happened. The appointments to SCOTUS happened. Accepting Jerusalem as the capital of Israel happened.
If you believe this then you aren’t paying close enough attention. You just need to watch any of the cable news networks to see pundits repeating Trump talking points literally every hour of every day.
“Everyone else” is an extraordinary claim. One that is easily disproved by turning on the television.
What an absurd claim. I can find plenty of examples of Republican officials, the media, members of Trump’s own administration and people in the rest of the world who think things are better now than they ever have been. That finally “America is finally great again”.
You don’t need to believe that “Donald Trump is telling the truth” to hold the belief that “things are better under Trump.” The truth doesn’t matter. If it did then Trump would not be president.
I voted not happy with Trump, but I’d be more unhappy with Hillary.
Trump added to the sanctions of Obama so your statement is incorrect.
From Wiki: on April 6, 2018, the Trump administration brought another new round of sanctions against Russia, targeting several oligarchs and high-ranking Russian officials.[22][23] In June 2018, the United States Department of the Treasury implemented new sanctions on several Russian entities and officials in connection to cyberattacks by Russia related to the 2016 election interference
There’s nothing to indicate Trump has given Putin anything but grief. The idea that he would want Trump as President has no basis.
The people that think that Trump is not a good person…Does anybody REALLY think that Hillary is a good person???
I think she’s about average on the goodness scale. Trump would be at the bottom of any scale I can imagine.
Sounds like a great idea for another poll.
Start a poll and link to it here. That will be a fun one.
I am happy, and I voted that way in the poll.
I am happy the Democratic party was told (whether or not they heard is another matter) USA rejects dynastic reign, that progressives value the character of a candidate more than his/her genitals, and that a nontrivial number of Americans would rather suck on a soggy turd like Donald Trump than accept a candidate whose best credentials are having a well-connected husband. We can survive a Trump presidency or two if it means convincing the only meaningfully progressive party that we want a real progressive leader who can also empathize with and accommodate opposition. I am happy Americans who thought our baser qualities were fairly uncommon among the population have had their eyes opened. I am happy the Trump administration has indeed exposed the nature and scope of corruption within our political system.
In short, I am happy in the same way I would be if I’d gone to the doctor and learned I had stage 2 melanoma. I mean, it sucks to know how bad it is but you can’t fix problems you don’t know about.
Nothing does. “Illegal” is an adjective and has no plural form. Therefore the phrase “Invasion by Illegals” has no valid meaning, and is gibberish.
BTW, I have not responded to the poll, nor will I, in this format. I will, however consult with TPTB and see if I can get away with submitting my own poll, with the difference that it will be public.
Really? Why? In what possible way could she govern that’s worse than what you’ve got now? I don’t know who she would put in the role Jared Kushner is playing now, to pick one member of Trump’s pirate crew of an administration at random, but I feel certain that person would be more qualified than Jared Kushner.
I simply cannot imagine Hillary Clinton being a more incompetent executive or more unsuitable head of state than Donald Trump.
But see, that’s the thing. It is a Truth, universally acknowledged, that when one of the evils is a Republican and the other is a Democrat, the Democrat is ALWAYS the lesser of two evils.
How is it that people can possibly CHOOSE to ignore universally acknowledged Truths?
'Tis a puzzlement.
'Tis a strawman.
People seeking asylum to the chagrin of Trump supporters. It’s clear your opinion is also based on Republican propaganda and not facts. Watch out for all that smallpox and leprosy.
The two times in my life they were both good honorable men, I think the voters picked the wrong one in Carter. Ford probably would have done a better job which might have meant no Reagan and the later extremism of the Republican party.
Obama vs McCain though we got right. McCain was no longer really the man I had respected and allowed himself to be talked into Palin as a running mate.
Reagan vs Mondale, I think despite the fact Reagan was a very mixed bag and did greatly accelerate the changes to the Republican party that moved it so far to the right and the racists. Picking Reagan was right for the time. But I also didn’t at the time think I was picking the lesser evil but a competent leader over a poor candidate that was just ineffective.
I think Bush the Elder was a better man then Bill Clinton but I think Clinton was the better President. Clinton got my vote in 1996, but in 1992 I voted 4th party. I think Green Party.
I would have voted McCain in 2000 but Cheney & Rove I feel stole the primary with very dirty politics. I couldn’t vote for Shrub/Cheney (evil incarnate). Ralph Nader got my vote. Gore ran a poor campaign. Not that my vote mattered as Gore easily won New Jersey. As things turned out, I would probably have regretted my vote if I lived in Florida.
HRC is not a person I wanted as President, but voting for her over Trump was such an easy choice.
Maybe because…it, by definition, ISN’T “universally” acknowledged?
No no, that’s how you win debates these days: claim your position is so self-evident that opposing it is proof of mental disability.