I can answer nearly every statement you've made, clearly and objectively. If you wish me to do it, I will.
Obviously no obligation to do so, Charlie, but that is what I was looking for. The points you raised in your last post, about Clinton etc., are election-time points but we’re post-election now, and into the new presidency. Hillary has nothing to do with the list of negatives about Trump that I put together, which put into general terms the list of specific actions which Andrew M. made at the start of this thread. Michael Cantor has added to this. (In my bulleted list in my post #37, btw, only the first point, about conflicts of economic interests, might apply to Clinton, though no where near to the extent that it applies to Trump and his Cabinet of billionaires.)
I continue to be bewildered how those negatives can be seen as prices worth paying, to benefit (supposedly) from whatever Trump might do to stimulate the economy. The lack of explaining about that inconsistency is a regular feature of Trump support, from what I have seen/heard/read. To date, I haven’t seen a single clear explanation from a Trump supporter or defender about why those negative points are acceptable or worth risking or putting up with. Usually, as Andrew S. says, a defensive response is given, to the effect that liberals are sore losers, or that the "elite media" doesn't understand the United States, etc. The negative and even dangerous things about Trump are never directly addressed.
Also, about William’s post #41: There are no classes of people. There are only individuals. Universals are not real entities. They don't really exist.
William, I said “working class” because that is what is always said about how Trump won the election: white working-class voters made the difference, say the articles. I don’t put much stock in the term, and I have no money myself. I was thinking of people who both don’t have much in the way of economic resources or prospects and who work at some sort of manual labor or factory job or whatever (the sorts of jobs Trump always says he is going to create). The first is true of me, the second isn’t.
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