You are very angry. Despising Trump is a difficult one. He is a business man which means he needs to make difficult decisions but he has also been a very kind and generous man. Many of those stories are not told loudly because he doesn’t tell them. I was very taken with the fact that he sent his plane with nurses on it to transport a young Israeli boy to America for treatment by a specialist hospital. Due to his condition the commercial airlines wouldn’t transport him and the family was at their wits end. Trump didn’t know them personally; he heard about it and stepped up. It was reported only in a Jewish newspaper at the time. There are many other such actions that he has performed over the years and not touted.
Eminent domain is a law for a reason. Trump can’t elect to pursue it. The municipalities involved invoke it if they believe the project is important for their local economy. We are a society that respects the rights of the individual by tradition. That is much less so that previously. I hate that too. But eminent domain has been used throughout America’s history to build roads, train tracks, Atlantic cities revival and many other city revivals. The case that he has been criticized for he offered 4 x the value of the house when he got involved which was after she had already been served. She didn’t take the offer and the project skirted her property, when she died her heirs sold and recouped less than 1/8 th of what she had been offered.
Trump is loud and he is very direct and not politically correct. That may strike you as boorish but it is one of his strengths. He has brought America’s real problems into the political arena to be talked about rather than swept under the table. That’s the first step in maybe finding a solution and even if that were all he had done I am grateful for his candidacy.
You’re damn right I’m angry. Our country is about to go into the dustbin of history and people are fawning over this obnoxious, liberal boor when we have some true conservatives running. When I read threads about how we need to pray for Saint Donald of Kardashia, by FReepers no less, it pisses me off. Six months ago FReepers would have laughed out loud at the thought of Donald Trump running as a Republican. Today, the only thing they’re questioning is if the Kool-Aid comes in both Grape AND Cherry.