2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: What an airline pilot says about Trump [View all]Red Oak
(699 posts)I think you are saying that the economy is recovering so no one should have voted for Trump. For many, many Americans, that is not the case. They are hurting badly, held their nose and voted for an orange idiot that made promises the he can most likely cannot keep.
There are many unemployed, wages are stagnant to down for years, there are many more underemployed. To say things are getting better in the last quarter, even the last year, is a bit too little, too late after eight years of a Democrat holding the Presidency. It is a natural cycle in the US for that spot to swing back and forth between parties anyway, for us to hold the office in the face of a prolonged recession was a more difficult that usual task.
I suggest we really concentrate on help the 99%.
Manage trade to bring jobs back to the USA, provide universal health care, enable low cost educational opportunities to invest in our future, rebuild our infrastructure. In short, a policy of helping the American people rather than the business owners, CEOs and Wall Street.
We will win elections.