The main advantage I saw was the move left on social issues. If Hillary had won, you'd have the house and senate still talking 'bible law' crap about marriage and gays and 'traditional values'. The longer he is there, the more trouble they have moving back to marketing that narrative. It's a huge leapfrog away from evangelical thinking. Trump isn't one to quote a bible verse!
And it should tell you something that the evangelicals didn't care at all. And now, they're eagerly pushing back LGBT rights, voting rights for nonwhite people, and packing the courts with young rightwing ideologies that will toss out any universal health care proposal. Better hope either they change, or that dems pack the courts, because otherwise you'll see the same increasingly expensive and wasteful system for a few decades. They haven't budged an inch - if anything, they've run full tilt as far right as they can.
They also have more trouble making their 'deals' with lobbyists and donors. As inexperienced as Trump is in policy, he doesn't give a crap about that or protecting those people. His focus is on trade and always has been for 30 years. Employment. GDP. Numbers. Winning. That is all he really cares about. He isn't well versed in anything else. He isn't good at anything else!
But....he is useful.
No, Dolt 45 has not concerned himself with "trade". He's concerned himself with trying to get into the Manhattan elite set, and with making as much money as possible via ripping off those he considers "beneath" him. He is, in reality, a failed real estate developer who is now a reality show star, and a mobbed-up con artist.
And I say that as a person who has spent plenty of time in NYC, and grew up nearby. THe guy's only president in order to erase "that ****** Obama", because white supremacism is an easy idea that the dullard can actually comprehend - and it easily feeds into his malignant narcissism, as well.
You think he is racist and inciting hatred? Tell me what you see when you walk out your front door and go about your day. More Chaos? Terror? Hatred? Intolerance? I don't.
I've
definitely seen more hatred and intolerance now, yes.
There were more race riots under Obama. In fact, have there been any big ones this year? Are they coming? I keep hearing bad things are coming. Bad things don't materialize. It's been 2 years of scare tactics. Everyone seems to be doing ok... in real life. If I didn't watch or read the news I'd think things were going very well! In the media, it's Armageddon. They need to stop crying wolf at every turn. I am desensitized.
And in those 2 years, we've seen a marked increase in hate crimes, an increase in actual race riots (which were always rare, and let's not confuse "race riot" with "police attacking communities to start a riot", which is what we saw in Ferguson and Baltimore, among other areas) and much stronger efforts to discriminate on the basis of sex, race, religion, and sexual orientation.
When he and his bigly ideas are gone, someone can come in and do the big national kumbaya for anyone offended with his crass tactics... and that is a valid point. He isn't an empath for sure.
Sorry, this has set any such effort back by several decades. And when I say that, I mean we're literally back to the Supreme Court using Jim Crow "Well, it doesn't *say* that the intention is to discriminate in the order" arguments to allow plainly bigoted actions - such as the Muslim travel ban.
(also, think the same people who caused the Charelottesville riot aren't prepared to cause more violence if Dolt 45 ever gets impeached or removed? Violence to advance white supremacism is, paradoxically, exactly what they do)
*the* good part, and it's not much of one, is that quite a few of the goofballs who sat around saying "Oh, he's just saying all that awful stuff to attract voters, he won't do any of it" are mostly recoiling in horror to discover that he's trying to do all that ugly stuff he says, and are gearing up to run for office. We'll see if they what they can do to counteract the ugliness coming out of DC these days.
