# Trump vs Regular Joe **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [July 6, 2019, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-vs-regular-joe/836629 "2019-07-06T16:42:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 21
**Author:** ![Bone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bone/32/407_2.png) [@Bone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bone)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2019, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-vs-regular-joe/836629/21 "2019-07-07T21:53:23Z")
> [@WillFarnaby](#): > > Electing an average joe would be the equivalent of handing over the government to the most conniving bureaucrats and operatives, so there is no surprise the authoritarian statists of the SDMB would choose this option. Even Trump’s hard-headedness is no match for his advisors who have basically convinced him to do a 180 on things like defunding NATO, furthering detente with Russia, and withdrawing from the wars. This is fair notice to you. I’m done with you interjecting your pet topic of statism or authoritarianism or the combination in unrelated threads, as well as passive aggressive denigrating the board. This goes for this thread, and all other threads in GD and Elections. I am bookmarking this post and If you do this again, you will be warned. I have also sent you this via PM. [/moderating] --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-vs-regular-joe/836629)._