The huge increase in these venom filled; irrational postings here is just amazing.
When Trump turns out to be something different than what his fervent supporters are projecting on to him; these folks are going to have MAJOR issues.
When Trump turns out to be something different than what his fervent supporters are projecting on to him; these folks are going to have MAJOR issues.
I dunno. Even if Trump fails to do half the stuff he promises, I don't see him slamming or demeaning the working middle class, and I think it's this trait that draws people to him. The intelligentsia and power elite make a lot of fun of Trump for his pride in having graduated from Wharton, but every time he brings that up, he is standing with the common man (those who go to state schools) against the elites who brag on their Ivy League schools.
When it gets right down to it, Trump really doesn't care where someone got their degree, or if they got a degree at all. Trump may waffle on a lot of fronts, but one thing he's held firm on is his disinterest in paying homage to the establishment. When he started his club at Mar-A-Lago, he took in many of the black and Jewish people, and the people who were too "rough edged" (i.e., didn't have a college education), who'd longed to join the other clubs and who had long been rejected.
Trump may mow over the little guy if someone gets in his way, but he'll do his level best to mow over the big guys if their in his way. Trump's major appeal, I suspect, is the fact that he respects -- or doesn't respect -- everybody equally.
He may think he knows best, but he doesn't go from there to assuming people who disagree with him are therefore stupid, racist, reactionary, etc. etc. And in his personal life, when people -- like his butler, who didn't like an advanced position Trump wanted to move him into -- tell him they're not interested in what he thinks is best for them, he's okay with that. He only calls people losers when they're blocking him from something he wants -- he doesn't call people losers for choosing a different path in life.
If Trump makes President, I think he'll be like Reagan in the sense that his core group of followers will think he's the Bees Knees whatever he does, because they care more about who he is than about what he does.