FJAG said:
I have more and more come to believe that the problem isn't so much Trump, but that part of the US population that continues to support and defend him when it is so obvious that he is in well beyond his depth. At some point, I expect, they will realize that the swamp isn't being drained but that new swamps are being dug and that the emperor has no clothes. I wonder what will happen then.
[cheers]
A study by the University of Pennsylvania was released on April 23, 2018 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ( PNAS ) about "that part of the US population",
"Status threat, not economic hardship, explains the 2016 presidential vote"
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/04/18/1718155115
It explains that his most enthusiastic supporters ( less-educated whites
* ) weren’t losing income or jobs. Instead, they were concerned about their place in the world,
“It was about dominant groups that felt threatened by change and a candidate who took advantage of that trend.
For the first time since Europeans arrived in this country, white Americans are being told that they will soon be a minority race.”
* Behind Trump’s victory: Divisions by race, gender, education.
Pew Research Center.
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/11/09/behind-trumps-victory-divisions-by-race-gender-education/
Regarding President Trump, his use of social ( anti-social? ) media, and "cyber-bullying".
This post, in U.S. Politics 2018, received 1,500 MilPoints. So, it may be worth a second look,
E.R. Campbell said:
I apologize for the tone of my remarks about Donald Trump, they go against what
I have said many times about good manners, but he is
sui generis, isn't he? He puts himself above the rules so he (and his apologists) ought not to complain when others break them in talking about him.
Of course, we do not wish to risk lowering our standards of discussion to that level by employing the same tactics "because he does."