# Trump voters: explain yourselves **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 24, 2016, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-voters-explain-yourselves/766699 "2016-09-24T03:24:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 145
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2016, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-voters-explain-yourselves/766699/145 "2016-09-26T00:23:57Z")
There is a post in the [Hillary thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=805596) and I took the liberty of moving my reply here, because it’s really more about Trump than about Hillary – my point being that anything one might fear from Hillary is multiplied about tenfold by Trump. > [@Trump voters: how SPECIFICALLY will Hillary damage the country in 4 years?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-voters-how-specifically-will-hillary-damage-the-country-in-4-years/766858/9): > > Definitely not a Trump voter. But to list possible damaging outcomes they and others voice concern about for the next four-eight years of a Clinton presidency (not in order of likelihood): > > 1. U.S. involvement in serious foreign war(s), in part due to perceived need to boost the image of “toughness” of a woman chief executive, > > 2. one or more major scandals following the typical Clinton pattern, at minimum disruptive and at worst provoking impeachment or other Constitutional crisis, > > 3. nomination of one or more leftist Supreme Court justices to wreak whatever mischief one happens to fear, > > 4. big tax increases on the middle class as it becomes clear that the government is far short of money to meet its obligations, not to mention free college tuition and other goodies promised by Clinton, for which taxing the 1% (or 5%, or even 10%) will not remotely suffice. > > 5. large numbers of Americans will go blind if they have to look at her bizarre collection of Chairwoman Maoist pantsuits for any length of time.\* > > Of course, to some extent a number of these fears could apply in equal or greater intensity to a Trump presidency (substitute “far right” for “leftist” in #3, and “hairpieces/fake tan” for “pantsuits” in #5). > > \*OK, that’s one of _my_ chief concerns. :eek: Since you’ve already more or less dealt with #3 and #5, I’ll deal with the others. And I have to say, on #3, I’ve never seen liberal justices anywhere even remotely as activist and extremist as the Scalia-Alito-Thomas crew, who actually got their way whenever Roberts and Kennedy saw fit to join them, which was often. On #1: What if the Chief Executive and Commander in Chief was such an insecure pathological narcissist and full-blown psychotic that he has lashed out against, publicly insulted, and/or sued everyone who has ever criticized him? How would he react against nations that defied and insulted him, when he had the power not just to sue but to attack militarily? How long before the nuclear football got opened? Hillary may be hawkish, but she isn’t an insane megalomaniac. There’s a difference. On #2: When you consider Trump’s failed casino schemes, his failed airline, his deceptive condo sales practices for which he’s being sued pretty much everywhere anything has ever been built with his name on it, his criminal fraud around Trump University, his propensity to stiff his business partners, and his multiple strategic bankruptcies that enriched him while robbing his partners, just about everything Trump touches becomes a scandal. On #4: Trump is a career crook and financial incompetent who makes money by fraud and by stiffing everybody else, and has proposed that the US government should reneg on its debts and essentially sacrifice its most precious asset, public trust. Servicing public debt is the highest non-discretionary spending of the US government. Taxes ought to look just great for everyone when the US government has to pay exorbitant interest rates on it and its financials are treated just like Trump’s businesses and are flushed right down the toilet. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-voters-explain-yourselves/766699)._