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I clicked on this expecting blather but actually found insight. The TLDR: non-college-educated working class people are sick of the disdain they get from middl

by dzdt 11y ago

I clicked on this expecting blather but actually found insight. The TLDR: non-college-educated working class people are sick of the disdain they get from middle and upper classes. Think of comments your friends might make about "rednecks" or people who are "inbred" or from "flyover country". A vote for Trump is a vote against the elite who Trump delights in pissing off. His outrageousness is his brand. The political system is stacked and broken so putting Trump in office won't change much. It just expresses disgust at the system and the upper and middle classes who run it.

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huac 11y ago
> The political system is stacked and broken so putting Trump in office won't change much. that's a dangerous view - trump has shown himself time again to be a good negotiator and has made good, calculated decisions. he has charisma! it's more likely that he would 'get something done' (not for better but for worse, probably) than somebody like ted cruz, who also rails against this political system, but who is more explicit in his disregard for the 'average joe' and is hated by the entire republican delegation to congress
- dzdt 11y ago
  To be clear, that was relaying the supposed position of Trump supporters, not my own.
wfo 11y ago
Presidential executive authority is vast. There is much the president can do without permission from any single other person and it has only expanded in recent years during the administrations of Bush and Obama. He could put every Muslim American on the no-fly list (or anyone considered 'subversive', for that matter). He could send in the military/national guard to lock every American citizen who doesn't fit a particular criteria into interment camps. He will be ordering drone strikes. He can sign the death warrant of American citizens. He can authorize surveillance, order intelligence agencies to disrupt and try to destroy his political opponents. All of these are things that the sitting US president has done in fairly recent history solely by power of the executive branch. There are many things the president can't do alone, but there are many, many things he or she can.

by dzdt 11y ago

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huac 11y ago

> The political system is stacked and broken so putting Trump in office won't change much. that's a dangerous view - trump has shown himself time again to be a good negotiator and has made good, calculated decisions. he has charisma! it's more likely that he would 'get something done' (not for better but for worse, probably) than somebody like ted cruz, who also rails against this political system, but who is more explicit in his disregard for the 'average joe' and is hated by the entire republican delegation to congress

dzdt 11y ago
To be clear, that was relaying the supposed position of Trump supporters, not my own.

wfo 11y ago

Presidential executive authority is vast. There is much the president can do without permission from any single other person and it has only expanded in recent years during the administrations of Bush and Obama. He could put every Muslim American on the no-fly list (or anyone considered 'subversive', for that matter). He could send in the military/national guard to lock every American citizen who doesn't fit a particular criteria into interment camps. He will be ordering drone strikes. He can sign the death warrant of American citizens. He can authorize surveillance, order intelligence agencies to disrupt and try to destroy his political opponents. All of these are things that the sitting US president has done in fairly recent history solely by power of the executive branch. There are many things the president can't do alone, but there are many, many things he or she can.