I'm to your right on the European Union and immigration, so I have less qualms about Le Pen. In addition, she is less likely to gut the welfare state than Macron and is certainly better on trade issues.
Surely you didn't apply this rationale to justify voting for Trump though, right?
Trump was an obvious con-man based on his record, and was less consistent on any issue. False equivalence much?
I think you proved my implicit point. Trump held generic right-wing positions on most all issues with even further extreme rhetoric on certain issues. Let's remember he ran on cutting taxes on corporations and for the rich, moving schools towards vouchers and charters, and in the past advocated for privatizing Social Security and spoke negatively of food stamps.
If it was so well-known that Trump was/is a con-artist, wouldn't SG have realized that someone with such views wouldn't have any real interest in preserving the welfare state? From what I can gather, security and cultural issues are more important to him, and so he voted for Trump accordingly. He's free to refute my assertion though.
I'll freely admit that I was caught Up in the boneheaded populist fervor when I cast my ballot. I was generally disatisified with the political establishment and saw that my community was slowly dying as the government simply looked on. I never 100% trusted Trump but he did pay some lip service to rural and small town America.
I regret my vote and have discussed it in detail with some other posters. On election I let emotional and lifelong resentment of the urban elite overtake my sense of reason and I continue to regret allowing myself slip like that.
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