Her approval ratings are actually bizarrely variable. She has been at very low levels several times over the past quarter-century and at very high levels at other points over that span. It’s quite a roller coaster.
Me trick-or-treating tonight in my Trump mask, with Tic-Tacs at the ready in case I run into any beautiful women and don’t want to wait: x.com
My seven-year-old, on his own, asked if we could skip the house with the Trump sign out front. There were also two dudes sitting in the driveway next to a barrel fire drinking beers. He said it looked a little too scary. I didn’t argue.
It was interesting how many little kids immediately recognized who I was and pointed and got excited and exclaimed “hey Trump!”. It was disturbing in a way. I wondered what they know about Trump. It was almost like if they recognized a porn star or something.
Hillary is a very human candidate. On one hand, I agree she plays politics. A lot, and they probably do political wheeling and dealing. On the other hand, people that work with her constantly refer to how warm she is as a person, and amidst the whole email leak people never talk about private emails such as this one:
This was a private email to Melanne Verveer that shows genuine concern for someone. If this had panned out, I wouldn’t be surprised if Clinton used it for political points, but I think it’s also a mistake to view her as some cold unfeeling power seeker-bot.
I’ll happily vote for her. Is she flawed? Yes, there are politicians that are less shady (and/or better at hiding it), but she also seems to be very good and caring a lot of the time. I’d openly agree that we can produce a better candidate, but I also don’t think that means Clinton is bad.
Since I got flak recently for saying that the Trump-supporting demographic tends to be uneducated and stupid, let me make up for it by suggesting that the two dudes sitting in the driveway next to a barrel fire drinking beers might have been a leading research biochemist and a Nobel laureate in medicine discussing a possible research collaboration for which they hope a Trump administration will provide generous funding. Noam Chomsky was going to join them later just to chat about how much it would mean to the academic establishment to get Trump elected.
She doesn’t get a bum rap, but it is true that it’s rarely reported how much loyalty she inspires, and how much even many of her political opponents like her personally(and even politically to some extent).
She has her positive points, but she also has very serious pathologies, partially enabled by the very loyalty the people close to her have. As one leaked email said, “Someone should have told her no.”
Two shysters, maybe, but one has been on a public service track her whole life, and the other hasn’t.
I’ll grant Trump his full due credit for having run a massive financial empire, and acknowledge that some of that experience can translate to the Executive Office. However, running the country simply Is Not the same thing as running a business. The motives and methods are actually quite different.
It is kind of like an ace fighter pilot claiming at the end of his career, “I am ready on day one to step into office as an oral surgeon!” Well look, I am sure if the ace pilot had been focusing on dentistry the whole time he would be prepared for it, but he has been engaged in something altogether different, and oral surgery actually requires a very high level of specific competence…
Aside from that, Hillary is a lawyer lifer, and Trump is not. The office of the President is to a very large extent a legal affair, and aside from successful generals I would only trust it to people with extensive legal experience- law professors, lawyers, longtime congresscritters or high level political insiders like First Ladies or Secretaries of State. I’m sorry, I know “outsiderism” is in right now, but there is something to be said for high-level government officials having some idea of what they’re doing. Trillions of dollars and millions of lives are at stake. Can’t we recognize competence?
Consider what is happening when a Clinton insider says something like “she shouldn’t have done that!”. That insider is predicting that her action, even if completely harmless, will result in outrageous claims of her being a crooked politician. So much of what is happening in this election is the public and press forgiving Trump for his obvious flaws and inadequate preparation to be POTUS because he hasn’t been a Washington insider. Instead, or, to the contrary, they blame HRC for every possible problem that has happened in Washington or around the world over the last 30 years.
Complete bullshit. America, as some have already said, need to focus.
Law isn’t the only background that can make a successful President. In fact, legal advisors are literally the easiest thing to come by in DC next to political advisors. Presidents need leadership experience more than anything else.
Plus if you have leadership experience one can fairly judge your leadership abilities. Trump’s are not that great.
Clinton is a better leader than Trump, but it has nothing to do with her law background. Law grads, even law professors, are a dime a dozen in DC. People who have done real stuff are far rarer.