That will not of course prevent such people, from the mainstream of either party, from presuming to speak on these people’s behalf, and not caring when their policies fail. As I said, they don’t understand or know these people. Why should their sufferings matter to them?
Me, I am educated. I am intelligent. And I support Trump for reasons I have articulated. Am I certain he will excel? No. Am I certain he will make decisions based on a gut level love of this country? Yes. And as I have said, that is more than we can expect from anyone else running for office.
We have heard good stories before, but if you are not willing to go where no one else will go in election season, how much less will you be willing to rock the boat once you get into office, decide you like it, and want to be reelected?
In American history, the only person who can relatively make George W. Bush look frugal by comparison is Barack Obama. Bush had a Republican Congress for 6 of his 8 years, and he not only spent like a Democrat, he spent like a drunk Democrat. As I was reminded by a meme recently, the drunk sailor analogy is inapt, because sailors only spend their own money, and I will add that they do not expect to get anything for it. Politicians who spend our money expect to buy the support of a large section of us with it, thinking, accurately in most cases, that we are too fucking stupid to see the long term consequences of it.