Trump voters, it's clear that Trump is not going to be the president you probably thought he was going to be. Just consider these:
- He's appointing people to his cabinet that have vast levels of experience in government.
"I know the best people, I will appoint the best people to make deals". He never said he wouldn't appoint people with gov't experience. He said he would appoint top businessmen and most of the economic cabinet posts are such.
- He said he wasn't a racist. Then he turns around and chooses Steve Bannon and Jeff Sessions for top positions in his administration.
"The only vote I regret, is voting against Session in 1986" - Arlen Specter just after becoming a Democrat.
Bannon is not personally a racist. I think he might be amoral to the point of willing to lie down with unacceptable types to achieve an end. He seems to be good as organizing a team and has some semblance of long term political strategy, which Trump needs to stay focused. Trump promised to hire "trained killers".
- He said he would repeal Obamacare in its entirety, now he has said he wants to keep select provisions exactly as they are.
He also said he wanted to keep those provisions during a primary debate though.
- He claimed to have an idea of how to run a government based on his business experience, however we now know that Obama has had to give him a crash course on things like the need to hire a full staff.
I was watching C-Span and they had a panel of White House officials from Clinton, Bush and Obama administrations. The one from the Bush administration said they "thought" they had an idea of how massive it would be as a result of governing Texas, but it turned out they were completely caught off guard. He even used a baseball analogy saying it was the equivalent of going from the best team in the country to the best team in the Galaxy.
- He is strongly considering appointing disgraced general David Petraeus to his cabinet
I doubt he would get Petraeus confirmed and I would not take seriously media reports about who is in the running for what.
- He is no longer committed to deporting all illegal immigrants
He took the same stance in September.
- He wants the SCOTUS to uphold Obergefell vs. Hodges
Semi-related: Trump ran against Cruz from the left on the Bathroom issue in Indiana.
- He is going to keep the U.S. in NATO
He never said otherwise. He said he was going to use the threat of leaving to force them to pony up their fair share of the costs.
All but Petraeus are things he was pledging to not do/promote in the campaign, and in the case of Petraeus, it's objectively bad for the country.
Actually a lot of this was stated during the campaign.
At best for a Trump voter, he's just Generic R. At worst for a Trump voter, he's a democrat in disguise that just agrees with Rs on a few select issues.
Faulty premise. Your entire post is built on the Donald Trump as seen by Trump's detractors, not his supporters and you are thus in now position to judge their satisfaction or disappointment. They never heard him pledge to appoint complete novices to gov't, or pull out of NATO just because he hates NATO/loves Russia. They heard him promise to appoint the best people and demand that our allies stop taking us for all we are worth and getting little in return for it except subsidizing their defense.
It is time for Trump voters to repent and to admit that they should have went with either Gary Johnson or Hillary Clinton. This thread is the place to do that.
It is attitudes like this that created Donald Trump in the first place.
