Ryan Foreman wrote:
Flagpole wrote:
Foreign Policy - Foreign Policy is more than just wars. Trump has snuggled up to murderous dictators around the world, heavily praising them and giving undue credence to Kim Jung Un by meeting with him. He has alienated our traditional allies. Hillary Clinton never would have done those things.
Healthcare - Trump has weakened the Affordable Care Act. Some have lost coverage, and it will need some serious righting of the ship by the next administration to make it viable going forward. Hillary Clinton would not have done that.
Taxes - Just bald-faced lies from Trump and Republicans about what that "tax break" would mean. Also, Trump took credit for something he really had no hand in at all. Just par for the course with him. Hillary Clinton would not have pressed for such a tax cut.
Trade and Immigration - Regarding Trade, those stupid tariffs are hurting AMERICANS, not punishing China. A completely idiotic move. Hillary Clinton never would have done that. Regarding Immigration, the fact that there is no wall is only because Trump is incompetent. He of course WANTS a wall, and wanting that stupid wall and imposing tariffs is continuing to fuel the us vs. them mentality that he has stoked, and let's be clear, it's white people vs. brown people that he supports. Obama was already the "Deporter-In-Chief". We didn't need some a-hole racist to come in a demonize whole groups of people. Hillary Clinton never would have done that.
Honesty and Integrity - That Hillary Clinton is not a perfect person does not make her equivalent to Trump in this way at all. Donald J. Trump is amoral. He is a serial liar. He very likely has a personality disorder which aids his complete lack of honesty and integrity. Hillary Clinton is a saint in comparison to Trump.
So, yeah, it's you. It's not "just" you though because there are a lot of stupid and ignorant people out there regarding these issues, but you are wrong on every one of those points, and horribly so.
I'm not arguing Trump's policies are good. I'm pointing out that its not a big difference from what Hillary would have been. Moreover, I'm not talking about the rhetoric but the actual policies we have under Trump. If the rhetoric means a lot to you, go know yourself out in condemning Trump. But things like what he says to North Korea is not that big of deal to me.
There are some differences between Trump and Hillary but not that much. The tax cut for example may have been a bad thing but its not that big of deal. Very few corporations ever ever paid 35% of their income in taxes. and Hillary most definitely would have kept it that way. 20% was always more typical.
Above all Trump is primarily a showman. He knows how to find an audience, size them up, and tell them what they want to hear. That is what he did with his voting base. It is just a matter of time before it dawns on everyone that he is really conning his own supporters, not his political opponents. At the end of the day Trump is a billionaire New Yorker who was as much a corporate democrat as anything else. He never had any political convictions. We are seeing that. The only exception is on the issue of trade. That is the one issue Trump was very outspoken about going all the way back to the early 1980s. But as I pointed out, not a lot has changed even on that issue except the tariffs and those could go away any time too..
There are huge differences between, Hillary and Trump. If Hillary was Prez there would be no meeting or love affair with Kim, no tarrifs war, no ending of regulations regarding possible water and air pollution, no governing by insulting tweets, no insane push to build a wall, no demonizing of illegal immigrants and no Mueller investigation. People can argue that that the investigation was a "witch hunt", but no other Presidential campaign has ever been as poorly managed as Trump's was.
People can believe the differences between the two are a good thing from a Trump supporter's perspective, but Hillary and Trump are night and day.