Can a trump supporter rationally explain...

[sudcalifornio]

The Republican Party is made up of three big groups that are aware of each other and support each other while not really caring that much for each other.

1. The plutocrats that want to bend government to their wishes in order to enrich themselves. They are anti-union, anti-tax, anti-EPA, anti-any-social-programs.
2. The theocrats that want to enshrine Christianity in government. Abortion abortion abortion is all they care about.
3. The xenophobes (anti-immigrants, bigots, misogynists & racists) and want government to make "their America" safe from those groups. These guys love guns as you need them to protect yourself from the all the folks they dislike.

On LPSG you mainly only see Group 3 here. They have a hard time not getting banned as hate is the fuel that fuels their little engines and it's hard not letting loose a torrent of hate at those groups they dislike as they bounce around the political forum trying to not violate the rules. Group #3 can't answer any of the OP's questions without laying these cards on the table.

Conservatism started out as just Group #1 but that was never enough to win elections so over the last 30-40 years they've added Groups #2 and #3 in order to win elections. Groups #2 and #3 are just now becoming aware that Group #1 is screwing them economically hence the rise of Trump whom they think will help them to suppress Group #1 while turbocharging the hate. They have a lot to learn though since they elected a Group #1 member who has zero interest in them.

very good exposition

 

[rickygNOLA]

This past month has been like watching a really, REALLY riveting performance of "Long Day's Journey Into Night" -- In that I expect him to walk out into the rose garden any day just all fucked up, morphine syringe hanging out of his arm, babbling on and on and twisting his hair. Just batshit crazy.

 

[Klingsor]

This past month has been like watching a really, REALLY riveting performance of "Long Day's Journey Into Night" -- In that I expect him to walk out into the rose garden any day just all fucked up, morphine syringe hanging out of his arm, babbling on and on and twisting his hair. Just batshit crazy.

Brilliant. Bonus points for the Hepburn photo.

 

[rickygNOLA]

Brilliant. Bonus points for the Hepburn photo.

LOL. Thanks. But it really is like watching a slow dismantling of someone's sanity (or what little there was of it to begin with). He's such a fucking buffoon.

 

[ozwestcoastboy]

As the Editorial Board of the NY Times writes today:

It’s with a whiff of desperation that President Trump insists these days that he’s the chief executive Washington needs, the decisive dealmaker who, as he said during the campaign, “alone can fix it.” What America has seen so far is an inept White House led by a celebrity apprentice.

This president did not inherit “a mess” from Barack Obama, as he likes to say, but a nation recovered from recession and with strong alliances abroad. Mr. Trump is well on his way to creating a mess of his own, weakening national security and even risking the delivery of basic government services. Most of the top thousand jobs in the administration remain vacant. Career public servants are clashing with inexperienced “beachhead” teams appointed by the White House to run federal agencies until permanent staff members arrive.

Mr. Trump lost his national security adviser this week in a scandal involving ties to Russian intelligence. Robert Harward, a retired vice admiral, refused the job on Thursday, rattled by a dysfunctional National Security Council and a president who has alienated Mexico, Australia and even the British royal family, while cozying up to Moscow.

When Mr. Trump’s assistants can keep the edge of panic out of their voices, they insist that Mr. Trump has gotten more done in the early going than most presidents. And Mr. Trump is so adept at creating smoke that Americans might be forgiven for thinking that’s true. But at this point in the Obama presidency, which did inherit a mess, Congress had passed laws aimed at dragging the economy back from the brink of depression while committing $800 billion in Recovery Act spending to projects ranging from housing to roads to advanced energy technologies.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/17/...-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region&_r=0

 

[sudcalifornio]

As the Editorial Board of the NY Times writes today:

It’s with a whiff of desperation that President Trump insists these days that he’s the chief executive Washington needs, the decisive dealmaker who, as he said during the campaign, “alone can fix it.” What America has seen so far is an inept White House led by a celebrity apprentice.

This president did not inherit “a mess” from Barack Obama, as he likes to say, but a nation recovered from recession and with strong alliances abroad. Mr. Trump is well on his way to creating a mess of his own, weakening national security and even risking the delivery of basic government services. Most of the top thousand jobs in the administration remain vacant. Career public servants are clashing with inexperienced “beachhead” teams appointed by the White House to run federal agencies until permanent staff members arrive.

Mr. Trump lost his national security adviser this week in a scandal involving ties to Russian intelligence. Robert Harward, a retired vice admiral, refused the job on Thursday, rattled by a dysfunctional National Security Council and a president who has alienated Mexico, Australia and even the British royal family, while cozying up to Moscow.

When Mr. Trump’s assistants can keep the edge of panic out of their voices, they insist that Mr. Trump has gotten more done in the early going than most presidents. And Mr. Trump is so adept at creating smoke that Americans might be forgiven for thinking that’s true. But at this point in the Obama presidency, which did inherit a mess, Congress had passed laws aimed at dragging the economy back from the brink of depression while committing $800 billion in Recovery Act spending to projects ranging from housing to roads to advanced energy technologies.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/17/...-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region&_r=0

problem, he is black so many racist hate it because that reason, no matter what he did