Cont: The Trump Presidency X: 10-10 'til we do it again

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Apathia said:
I know a woman who voted for Obama as the "Change" candidate. She then voted for Trump because she said Obama didn't bring any real change but Trump would. I'm not sure what specific changes she was expecting.
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Evidence of voters that have almost no information and a lot of magical thinking of what they are getting for their vote.
 
newyorkguy said:
People who voted for Obama and then Trump (and many of them still feel positively towards Obama) did it because they wanted "change." These voters have been fairly consistent in the change they wanted. An end to the rich-get-richer-and-the-poor-get poorer reality of the past thirty years.
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How on Earth is that a reason to vote for Trump? :confused:
 
Captain_Swoop said:
Trump Retweets

"@RealJamesWoods
Whether you love or hate him, Trump’s ascendancy to the presidency was a once-in-a-century miracle. He was literally the Man Without a Party, yet beat 16 primary competitors and an opponent whose victory was her “manifest destiny.” It was a political feat unequaled in history."
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Twitter Suspends James Woods. Woods Stands His Ground.

"I’m gone a week and @LindseyGrahamSC actually IS Spartacus."
-- James Woods (Oct 5, 2018)​

Welcome back!
 
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timhau said:
Sure, but how can one make oneself trust it when it's coming from the creature from the Orange Lagoon?
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I'd imagine that is the question a lot of such voters are asking themselves as buyers remorse sets in.
 
KDLarsen said:
Presumably the whole 'drain the swamp'-thing resonated heavily with that type of voter.
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It undoubtedly did resonate. Trump also campaigned on growing American jobs, raising wages, bringing back blue collar jobs from overseas, etc. These are some of the things he was Tweeting during the run-up to the campaign.
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
The middle-class has worked so hard, are not getting the kind of jobs that they have long dreamed of - and no effective raise in years. BAD
8:30 AM - Dec 28, 2015

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
Wages in are[sic] country are too low, good jobs are too few, and people have lost faith in our leaders.We need smart and strong leadership now! 8:50 AM - Dec 28, 2015 News link
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The swing voters also did not know a whole lot about Donald Trump. I'm from New York, I've been exposed to him for thirty-five years. Trump has never been someone who holds up well in the long run. A New York City mayor once said, of all the people he'd had to deal with while in office, Trump was probably the greediest. He long ago gained a reputation in New York for being a self-aggrandizing phony.

But many people around the rest of the country seemed unaware of some of the criticism The Don got over the years. They never heard of the United States Football League, the Trump Shuttle. They knew very little about Atlantic City and the questionable strategy he followed there. They were of the opinion -- I heard this a number of times -- that they admired the fact that he was a businessman who suffered some business failures, yet regrouped and became even more successful. I think the television show The Apprentice helped him immeasurably, in introducing Trump to the rest of the U.S. and doing it on his terms.
 
theprestige said:
I can't imagine how weird it must feel, for someone to have that video as their consolation prize for the Trump presidency.
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These video have real value. We know Trump is terrified of being laughed at. He hates it above all else. I hope this one gets more play. A real president would laugh it off, for Trump this sort of thing causes real suffering for him.
 
newyorkguy said:
But many people around the rest of the country seemed unaware of some of the criticism The Don got over the years. They never heard of the United States Football League, the Trump Shuttle. They knew very little about Atlantic City and the questionable strategy he followed there. They were of the opinion -- I heard this a number of times -- that they admired the fact that he was a businessman who suffered some business failures, yet regrouped and became even more successful. I think the television show The Apprentice helped him immeasurably, in introducing Trump to the rest of the U.S. and doing it on his terms.
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Exactly.
 
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