Who are these people that actually LIKE Trump?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm an attorney and HHI is over 500k. I like trump. I'll probably say I voted for Rubio or something though if anyone asks me.

+1, though my HHI exceeds $1.3mm. My main concerns with Trump, though, would be his inability to (i) work with Congress, given the failures of the Obama administration in that regard and the obvious cost it has had to our economy, and (ii) attract and retain top talent in senior government positions. The main draw of Trump is his optimism about America ("gonna be great!"), not unlike that of Reagan after the dour Jimmy Carter (shudder) years.

news flash. Your household income does not impress me.

I don't think this poster is trying to impress anyone--rather he/she is showing support across economic lines.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Come with me to the small towns of Pennsylvania or hang out with the guys taking a smoke break at our warehouse in Beltsville, MD. You'll meet them.

And, yes, they know what you think of them. Your ignorant criticisms of their lives and choices only confirm their support of Trump.

This is exactly right. Throw out the Muslims? I actually find it scary how insular the liberals DC-er's are. I don't agree with Trump but your blatant lack of understanding of how America works is disturbing.

It goes back to education in the hot bed of liberalism (aka colleges and universities). These pillars of indoctrination are not teaching a variety of though, multiple view points or a need to understand that there is more than one way to address an issue. I say this as someone with multiple degrees. Unless or until a balance can be found on university campuses, we will continue to have educated elites who have no understanding of viewpoints that do not aline with what they have been taught to believe.

I would like you to tell us what exactly it is we need to understand about working America. Someone mentioned immigration being a big concern. How many times has Obama asked Congress to ask on this? And how come his administration has had the largest number of deportations?

Here is the salient point: just because a president wants to pass legislation acceptable to him it does not mean that Congress has to abide with his wishes. Obama wanted comprehensive immigration reform which would ultimately include amnesty: Congress was not willing to go along with it. He then sought to accomplish this, in part, through an executive order and was stopped by the courts.

The total deportations as I understand it is based on people who are turned away at the border which the administration has been counting as a deportation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If either Trump or Cruz become president you will see either one using their executive authority to effect legal changes in an unprecedented manner.

The Democrats who loved Obama using his executive authority to attempt to change the status of illegals in the country will have a chance to fume away at the "abuse of power" they will allege is taking place.

I have thought all along that Obama's unfettered use of executive order to get around Congress will come back to the bite the D's in the ass when a R is back in the White House. It was very short-sighted not to temper this action. This is partly was has provided a ground swell of support for someone like Trump. Too many Americans are fed up with political grandstanding that does not represent the desires of the people.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Come with me to the small towns of Pennsylvania or hang out with the guys taking a smoke break at our warehouse in Beltsville, MD. You'll meet them.

And, yes, they know what you think of them. Your ignorant criticisms of their lives and choices only confirm their support of Trump.

This is exactly right. Throw out the Muslims? I actually find it scary how insular the liberals DC-er's are. I don't agree with Trump but your blatant lack of understanding of how America works is disturbing.

It goes back to education in the hot bed of liberalism (aka colleges and universities). These pillars of indoctrination are not teaching a variety of though, multiple view points or a need to understand that there is more than one way to address an issue. I say this as someone with multiple degrees. Unless or until a balance can be found on university campuses, we will continue to have educated elites who have no understanding of viewpoints that do not aline with what they have been taught to believe.

I would like you to tell us what exactly it is we need to understand about working America. Someone mentioned immigration being a big concern. How many times has Obama asked Congress to ask on this? And how come his administration has had the largest number of deportations?

Here is the salient point: just because a president wants to pass legislation acceptable to him it does not mean that Congress has to abide with his wishes. Obama wanted comprehensive immigration reform which would ultimately include amnesty: Congress was not willing to go along with it. He then sought to accomplish this, in part, through an executive order and was stopped by the courts.

The total deportations as I understand it is based on people who are turned away at the border which the administration has been counting as a deportation.

So? It's people who are not in the country and it's a far larger number than the previous administration. But I guess it doesn't count, because Obama.

Can you spell out Trump's immigration plan for me and how it will be implemented?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Come with me to the small towns of Pennsylvania or hang out with the guys taking a smoke break at our warehouse in Beltsville, MD. You'll meet them.

And, yes, they know what you think of them. Your ignorant criticisms of their lives and choices only confirm their support of Trump.

This is exactly right. Throw out the Muslims? I actually find it scary how insular the liberals DC-er's are. I don't agree with Trump but your blatant lack of understanding of how America works is disturbing.

It goes back to education in the hot bed of liberalism (aka colleges and universities). These pillars of indoctrination are not teaching a variety of though, multiple view points or a need to understand that there is more than one way to address an issue. I say this as someone with multiple degrees. Unless or until a balance can be found on university campuses, we will continue to have educated elites who have no understanding of viewpoints that do not aline with what they have been taught to believe.

I would like you to tell us what exactly it is we need to understand about working America. Someone mentioned immigration being a big concern. How many times has Obama asked Congress to ask on this? And how come his administration has had the largest number of deportations?

"working America" does not want amnesty. That is the only type of immigration reform that would be supported by the President. No point in advancing it as it is not supported by the majority of the Country, especially the working class.

On point.

Yep. The vast majority of voting Americans do not want amnesty and Congress knows it. That's why immigration reform hasn't happened.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm an attorney and HHI is over 500k. I like trump. I'll probably say I voted for Rubio or something though if anyone asks me.

+1, though my HHI exceeds $1.3mm. My main concerns with Trump, though, would be his inability to (i) work with Congress, given the failures of the Obama administration in that regard and the obvious cost it has had to our economy, and (ii) attract and retain top talent in senior government positions. The main draw of Trump is his optimism about America ("gonna be great!"), not unlike that of Reagan after the dour Jimmy Carter (shudder) years.

I think you're onto something. I feel like other candidates (Clinton) are slightly embarrassed of America, whereas he has great optimism.

Blue collar whites, so called Reagan democrats, are his main supporters. I think of them as football fans (NFL, college) looking for something to root for, to believe in. They hold America (as they envision it) very dear, and have seen it demoralized and degraded by the Obama administration, which they feel does not value the "real" America. They are patriotic, singing the Star Spangled Banner and saying the Pledge of Allegiance without irony, and likely said a prayer before Thanksgiving dinner. Their children volunteer for military service, and they don't worry about what schools are in the "Big 3" in their communities, because their children attend the local public school. "HYP" means nothing to them. They know how to pronounce "corpsman". No matter how tired, they know that America has 50 states.

Finally, they are terrific people, the backbone of America, and far too often scorned on this board.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Come with me to the small towns of Pennsylvania or hang out with the guys taking a smoke break at our warehouse in Beltsville, MD. You'll meet them.

And, yes, they know what you think of them. Your ignorant criticisms of their lives and choices only confirm their support of Trump.

This is exactly right. Throw out the Muslims? I actually find it scary how insular the liberals DC-er's are. I don't agree with Trump but your blatant lack of understanding of how America works is disturbing.

It goes back to education in the hot bed of liberalism (aka colleges and universities). These pillars of indoctrination are not teaching a variety of though, multiple view points or a need to understand that there is more than one way to address an issue. I say this as someone with multiple degrees. Unless or until a balance can be found on university campuses, we will continue to have educated elites who have no understanding of viewpoints that do not aline with what they have been taught to believe.

I would like you to tell us what exactly it is we need to understand about working America. Someone mentioned immigration being a big concern. How many times has Obama asked Congress to ask on this? And how come his administration has had the largest number of deportations?

"working America" does not want amnesty. That is the only type of immigration reform that would be supported by the President. No point in advancing it as it is not supported by the majority of the Country, especially the working class.

On point.

Yep. The vast majority of voting Americans do not want amnesty and Congress knows it. That's why immigration reform hasn't happened.

So, that actually resulted in illegal immigrants still being here, immigration authorities still being spread thin, and no revenue (that we could've had if these people had to pay fees and taxes). How is that better?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm an attorney and HHI is over 500k. I like trump. I'll probably say I voted for Rubio or something though if anyone asks me.

why? Would love to hear your reasons and how you would envision Trump's America

As POTUS he obviously wouldn't have the authority to do everything that he campaigns on, but immigration laws would start being enforced, we'd be more careful about what nations we accept immigrants from, the libs cramming political correctness down our throats would be shut up, Putin would respect us and his power grabs would be curtailed, and we would have an at least decent shot of finding a way to work productively with an emerging China. The biggest downside with him is that I doubt he would cut spending and taxes, but no one would do that anyway (despite all the rhetoric) except maybe Rand Paul. Rand Paul would be my first pick but he doesn't have any chance of winning.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm an attorney and HHI is over 500k. I like trump. I'll probably say I voted for Rubio or something though if anyone asks me.

+1, though my HHI exceeds $1.3mm. My main concerns with Trump, though, would be his inability to (i) work with Congress, given the failures of the Obama administration in that regard and the obvious cost it has had to our economy, and (ii) attract and retain top talent in senior government positions. The main draw of Trump is his optimism about America ("gonna be great!"), not unlike that of Reagan after the dour Jimmy Carter (shudder) years.

I think you're onto something. I feel like other candidates (Clinton) are slightly embarrassed of America, whereas he has great optimism.

Blue collar whites, so called Reagan democrats, are his main supporters. I think of them as football fans (NFL, college) looking for something to root for, to believe in. They hold America (as they envision it) very dear, and have seen it demoralized and degraded by the Obama administration, which they feel does not value the "real" America. They are patriotic, singing the Star Spangled Banner and saying the Pledge of Allegiance without irony, and likely said a prayer before Thanksgiving dinner. Their children volunteer for military service, and they don't worry about what schools are in the "Big 3" in their communities, because their children attend the local public school. "HYP" means nothing to them. They know how to pronounce "corpsman". No matter how tired, they know that America has 50 states.

Finally, they are terrific people, the backbone of America, and far too often scorned on this board.

Clap! Clap!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm an attorney and HHI is over 500k. I like trump. I'll probably say I voted for Rubio or something though if anyone asks me.

+1, though my HHI exceeds $1.3mm. My main concerns with Trump, though, would be his inability to (i) work with Congress, given the failures of the Obama administration in that regard and the obvious cost it has had to our economy, and (ii) attract and retain top talent in senior government positions. The main draw of Trump is his optimism about America ("gonna be great!"), not unlike that of Reagan after the dour Jimmy Carter (shudder) years.

I think you're onto something. I feel like other candidates (Clinton) are slightly embarrassed of America, whereas he has great optimism.

Blue collar whites, so called Reagan democrats, are his main supporters. I think of them as football fans (NFL, college) looking for something to root for, to believe in. They hold America (as they envision it) very dear, and have seen it demoralized and degraded by the Obama administration, which they feel does not value the "real" America. They are patriotic, singing the Star Spangled Banner and saying the Pledge of Allegiance without irony, and likely said a prayer before Thanksgiving dinner. Their children volunteer for military service, and they don't worry about what schools are in the "Big 3" in their communities, because their children attend the local public school. "HYP" means nothing to them. They know how to pronounce "corpsman". No matter how tired, they know that America has 50 states.

Finally, they are terrific people, the backbone of America, and far too often scorned on this board.

Except it's the Republicans that have ruined their American Dream by destroying unions. Their anger is misplaced. And I resent the implication that liberals are not patriots.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Come with me to the small towns of Pennsylvania or hang out with the guys taking a smoke break at our warehouse in Beltsville, MD. You'll meet them.

And, yes, they know what you think of them. Your ignorant criticisms of their lives and choices only confirm their support of Trump.

This is exactly right. Throw out the Muslims? I actually find it scary how insular the liberals DC-er's are. I don't agree with Trump but your blatant lack of understanding of how America works is disturbing.

It goes back to education in the hot bed of liberalism (aka colleges and universities). These pillars of indoctrination are not teaching a variety of though, multiple view points or a need to understand that there is more than one way to address an issue. I say this as someone with multiple degrees. Unless or until a balance can be found on university campuses, we will continue to have educated elites who have no understanding of viewpoints that do not aline with what they have been taught to believe.

I would like you to tell us what exactly it is we need to understand about working America. Someone mentioned immigration being a big concern. How many times has Obama asked Congress to ask on this? And how come his administration has had the largest number of deportations?

"working America" does not want amnesty. That is the only type of immigration reform that would be supported by the President. No point in advancing it as it is not supported by the majority of the Country, especially the working class.

On point.

Yep. The vast majority of voting Americans do not want amnesty and Congress knows it. That's why immigration reform hasn't happened.

So, that actually resulted in illegal immigrants still being here, immigration authorities still being spread thin, and no revenue (that we could've had if these people had to pay fees and taxes). How is that better?

All it takes is the mention of amnesty to create hope and a new flood of illegal border crossers. The amnesty is a big driver of the northbound stream.

[Anonymous]

A lot of my liberal friends in IT are very concerned with H1B visas I also know a lot of parents who are frustrated that it si so difficult to get into college and are upset that students VISAS are taking the spots of us citizens.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm an attorney and HHI is over 500k. I like trump. I'll probably say I voted for Rubio or something though if anyone asks me.

+1, though my HHI exceeds $1.3mm. My main concerns with Trump, though, would be his inability to (i) work with Congress, given the failures of the Obama administration in that regard and the obvious cost it has had to our economy, and (ii) attract and retain top talent in senior government positions. The main draw of Trump is his optimism about America ("gonna be great!"), not unlike that of Reagan after the dour Jimmy Carter (shudder) years.

I think you're onto something. I feel like other candidates (Clinton) are slightly embarrassed of America, whereas he has great optimism.

Blue collar whites, so called Reagan democrats, are his main supporters. I think of them as football fans (NFL, college) looking for something to root for, to believe in. They hold America (as they envision it) very dear, and have seen it demoralized and degraded by the Obama administration, which they feel does not value the "real" America. They are patriotic, singing the Star Spangled Banner and saying the Pledge of Allegiance without irony, and likely said a prayer before Thanksgiving dinner. Their children volunteer for military service, and they don't worry about what schools are in the "Big 3" in their communities, because their children attend the local public school. "HYP" means nothing to them. They know how to pronounce "corpsman". No matter how tired, they know that America has 50 states.

Finally, they are terrific people, the backbone of America, and far too often scorned on this board.

Except it's the Republicans that have ruined their American Dream by destroying unions. Their anger is misplaced. And I resent the implication that liberals are not patriots.[/quote
] It isn't the destruction of unions that has ruined the American Dream. It is over regulation and taxation of business that has pushed businesses over seas. Unions don't make a damn bit of difference when there aren't any jobs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A lot of my liberal friends in IT are very concerned with H1B visas I also know a lot of parents who are frustrated that it si so difficult to get into college and are upset that students VISAS are taking the spots of us citizens.

This. It is not just a "republican" issue. Both set of party elites are underestimating the frustration of the American people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm an attorney and HHI is over 500k. I like trump. I'll probably say I voted for Rubio or something though if anyone asks me.

+1, though my HHI exceeds $1.3mm. My main concerns with Trump, though, would be his inability to (i) work with Congress, given the failures of the Obama administration in that regard and the obvious cost it has had to our economy, and (ii) attract and retain top talent in senior government positions. The main draw of Trump is his optimism about America ("gonna be great!"), not unlike that of Reagan after the dour Jimmy Carter (shudder) years.

news flash. Your household income does not impress me.

I don't think this poster is trying to impress anyone--rather he/she is showing support across economic lines.

PP2, that was me. As PP1 said, I was not trying to impress anyone with an, um, anonymous posting. And don't call me "newsflash", or Shirley, or Francis.