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I don't buy that argument. I think it's basically the elite's attempt to impose some rationality on Trump's slice of the electorate, when it's pretty clear tha
by mnemonicsloth 6y ago
I don't buy that argument. I think it's basically the elite's attempt to impose some rationality on Trump's slice of the electorate, when it's pretty clear that his popularity has visceral/emotional/anti-intellectual roots. If it was about his promises, they wouldn't vote for him again because he hasn't delivered on them. The border wall he made the centerpiece of his campaign is nowhere, and most of his other plans have failed. But his people still think he's wonderful and will turn out in droves to vote for him.
- cmrdporcupine 6y agoI don't think the core of what I said is about _fulfilling_ said promises -- they're obviously nonsense -- so much as Trump's deliberate marketing to the working class. He's selling one thing, but delivering another. His first public appearance as president elect was to walk into a $$$ steak restaurant in Manhattan where he walked around letting every wealthy person in there know he was "going to lower your taxes." A couple weeks after running basically anti-semitic ads attacking the global elite and wealthy bankers and George Soros and what not.