# Touching a nerve **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [November 21, 2016, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/touching-a-nerve/772684 "2016-11-21T22:17:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 25
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2016, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/touching-a-nerve/772684/25 "2016-11-22T15:17:19Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > …If he comes out as an actual Trump supporter… Well, I wasn’t just guessing OP’s sympathetic view of Trump, if not an actual supporter, I don’t know: > [@Stop being the expert \[famous people and political views\]](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-being-the-expert-famous-people-and-political-views/772543/19): > > …And, before anyone starts screaming what does Trump know? He won didn’t he?.. > [@Stop being the expert \[famous people and political views\]](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-being-the-expert-famous-people-and-political-views/772543/31): > > Yes, no political experience, but experience putting teams together and getting things done which I think is part of the reason he won. Also, from what I hear and read, he seemed to touch on issues like jobs, healthcare for instance that many Americans are very concerned about. So, he wasn’t always just mouthing off, he actually touched a nerve with some voters and people want to know their concerns are being heard. The thread was almost self-parody. A suggestion that unqualified media personalities should not speak out about politics, when we just elected an unqualified media personality as President; and in the predictable ensuing snark and sarcasm a butthurt claim that people were overreacting. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/touching-a-nerve/772684)._