And yet his approval ratings are in the tank. I think people vote with their pocketbooks and what impacts them directly. Most of the things you list don't significantly impact the average joe directly. Take even the tax cut: Median household income is around $58K. The analysis I’ve seen indicates that the average household will receive a tax decrease somewhere in the $500 to $800 range. Assuming $650 for the average family, that represents all of an additional $12.50 a week. I doubt that’s going to have a major impact on voters and doubt that will significantly increase this President’s approval rating or the size of his electorate.
I think he could have expanded his base by acting like an adult, much less twitter, by focusing the majority of the tax cuts on the middle class rather than business, by truly reaching across the aisle (starting with infrastructure could have set an entirely different tone for this Presidency), by not attacking members of his own party. Those are a handful of places where I think he's falling short.
Whatever. In my family the Trump supporters work and pay taxes and support themselves.
The Trump detractors basically live off the efforts of other. They vote democrat, and sound like democrats.
I have been voting for Republicans since 1976. I am very happy with the current president and the results of his positions and policies.
I am a realistic "glass half-full" type. I don't get up everyday, looking for what is wrong, deficient in my world.
But I surmise that #nevertrumpers are the negative, never-satisfied folks. When I managed people, from time to time one such would turn up. Usually highly intelligent, but impractical when it came to results.
It proved overly difficult to provide instructions about the work at hand. They required endless discussion of every wrinkle and crease, so to speak. The solution was transfer them, and get practical results oriented folks instead.
And I'm not talking about clerk typists. I am talking about engineers, accountants, analysts, MBAs and CPAs.
