I’m really curious. Not being Hillary doesn’t count.
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Not being Hillary is pretty much it.
All right, I’ve got one. He can’t be bought.
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What he said. Trump may yet prove to be a disaster, but with HRC it was a guarantee.
Could you explicitly explain why, please? Many are obviously struggling to understand all this, so any concrete insight that could be provided would definitely help.
I don’t recall HRC contemplating the use of nuclear weapons, or their proliferation. In a sane environment that would have been a deal killer.
Not a Trump voter obviously, but he’s a fighter and a true believer. In the last couple weeks when everyone was saying he was going to lose horribly he kept campaigning and grinding out rally after rally. The media made fun of him for campaigning in places he couldn’t win, and then he won them.
I doubt I could “explain” it, because if you are a Clinton supporter our values are likely too far apart to agree on what would constitute a catastrophe. It would be a debate, and not a very fruitful one, for the same reason.
Have you never spoken to a Trump supporter before?
I’m sorry that I wasn’t clear, but I was asking why Clinton would be a disaster. And I don’t know any democrats in my area, everyone here voted for Trump or not at all.
People seem to have bought into this, but it’s ridiculous. It’s not like Trump has retired from business. He’s out there trying to make more and more money.
OK, you’re not going to bribe Trump by giving him small amounts of money, but that never happens anyway. But to the extent that you’re worried about conflicts of interest, Trump probably has more than anyone else.
- No more foreign “nation building”
- Stronger border security
- Better immigration vetting
- More focus on creating an environment that promotes job creation
- Less spending of US resources to “police the world”
- More trade agreements that are actually beneficial to US job creation and the US in general
- Moderate views on Gun Control and Planned Parenthood
- Public school choice
- Greater investment in rebuilding our infrastructure
- Stronger and more focused foreign policy and better military investment and strategy
I think I could come up with many more. But, these are enough of the reasons why I voted for Trump.
Refugees already take almost two years to get in.
Can you name major problems with immigrants that came here in the last few years?
Job creation will continue overseas. Trump is as much a practitioner of that as anyone.
During his campaign, Trump vowed to defund Planned Parenthood.
I remember his plan for schools. He claimed that all the students would congregate at the good schools and the bad ones would go away. Leaving the good schools with 2 or three times more students than they were planned for.
His plan was to privatize infra structure improvements. So only profitable projects would be done.
1.) I believe he truly cares about Americans wellbeing. He’s been talking about the ill effects many of these trade agreements have had on Americans for damn near 20 years, which is true.
2.) School choice!
3.) Not a war hawk and seems more willing to practice diplomacy, even with our enemies.
All of these, plus the fact that he is pro-business. Small business owners like me are breathing easier after the last 8 years of anti-business mindset from the Obama administration.
Can you elaborate on this? These two seem to be conflicting to me. Less military spending on Syria (flexing our muscles against Russia), more military spending on flexing our muscles where? China? Mosul? North Korea? Mexico?
He has never, to my knowledge, embraced Suha Arafat.
I’m not a Trump voter, but there’s probably two main paths under which everything will unfold:
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He ends up being the man who we elected. That is to say, he’s a crass doofus who will try to end Roe vs. Wade, nuke Iran, start a trade war with China, etc. All of which will immediately turn the whole nation, every expert in government, and both parties against him. He’ll be told that he’s a moron every day, and quickly be ignored by the rest of government, who will simply work around him. Only legislation which passes a super-majority will be enacted. That will require Democratic support, so we’ll actually get a fairly centrist term.
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Trump continues to toy with the Republican party by dangling the things they want - cabinet positions, supreme court appointments, legislation, etc. - for just long enough to get some core reform policies on term limits, etc. enacted, and then drops the veil and reveals that he’s a businessman centrist, starts vetoing everything, from both parties, and does some reasonable (and some stupid) stuff as any president does, but not completely outside the bounds of reason.
Neither case is really all that bad. I fear #1 more, just because it could mean that Trump steps down and Pence takes over. That I fear greatly. #2, on the other hand, might not be horrible. I would be worried that he takes out the lobby system, though.
Or #3:
Trump appoints a lot of mainstream Republicans to various positions, and these guys narrow down the parameters of what can or can’t be done, and Trump gives his input within those parameters. Occasionally Trump pulls a Trump and says something stupid, but for the most part he’s indistinguishable from another politician, especially if he gradually learns the ropes over time.
IMHO this is the likeliest scenario.