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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I’m genuinely curious. When he said this was what he would do, did you not believe him? [/quote]

OP here. Sort of. A lot of this is stuff that I knew he'd find appealing, but the guy says a lot of stuff that isn't true-- mexico paying for it and all that. Plus, for all his faults, [b]I did think that he was sort of correct in his complaint that he was constantly stymied in his first term by entrenched power structures that hated him and thought he was a joke. Tbh, I still think that. [/b]The fact that a huge share of the country called themselves the Resistance-- as though they were standing up to tanks in the streets of 1968 Prague-- was sort of absurd, and I thought it was revealing that so many members of our social elite were like "yeah, that's a reasonable thing to do."

This time though it seems different. It seems like he's able to do a lot more of the stuff he said he'd do. But he's also not doing some of the better stuff he said he would. So from my vantage point, a big vibe I got from his campaign was that he would be pragmatic and approach even some Dems to high-level positions (which he did, I guess) and avoid weapon using the justice system. The hardcore small-government shtick and the EOs though all seem like he's just out for blood. [/quote]

The reason he wasn't able to do what he's doing now, is because there were somewhat reasonable people around him that tempered his worst instincts. This was a good thing (as you're finding out now). [/quote]

And this is what I don’t understand about Trump voters.  Why vote for someone when you are depending upon everyone around them and their opposition to keep them from achieving their crazy plans?  Why not just vote for the people you are depending upon to hold him back?  Those are clearly the more sane people AND you as a voter know you can rely on them.  Instead they vote for the crazy flamboyant man and hope the good people around him can placate him.  [/quote]

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