Other reasons I voted for Trump, bith in the Primary (Giru, if you don't know, this is when the parties vote to choose their candidate to run for office. I hope this doesn't come off as condescending, just trying to give info if needed) and in the general election:
He is, as Thudgens quoted Curt Kobain as saying (I had no odea he ever said that, what an amazing prediction), an outsider. That is, NOT a politician. He is a successful businessman. This countrybwas never intended to have a professional political class. And yet, exactly that has developed! I believe this professional political class is TOTALLY DISCONNECTED from life in the real world! They are quite obviously totally disconnected from the general population. Obvious because none of them took Trump seriously. In fact, the Republicans at first attempted to derail his candidacy. And all along, politicians, "news media", "analysts" and "experts" alike all said he had no chance. For me, he is a breath of fresh air, despite his glaring flaws, in a sea of homogenous political correctness, where politicians use windy phrases to say nothing, attempt to playcate the population while lining their pockets and driving the country deeper in debt.
Trump being a successful businessman, having experience making a profit - and also going bankrupt, which he did in the late 80's or early 90's, I hope that he will get a handle on the US budget. Our national debt increases at an astonishing rate. There was a widespread misunderstanding during Bill The Crook Clinton's tenure that the US was not in debt, because tjere was a "budget surplus". This was because the federal budget included more BORROWING than it needed! So, Bill Clinton drove us deeper into debt, at the pace of something like 3 trillion dollars per year, while bragging about busget surpluses. And the American people blussfully watched the liberal press spout this bullshit, deliberately misleading the American people while Slick Willy sold us out to China.
On that score, Trump has targeted free trade agreements. This is another reason I support him. Slick Willy is reaponsible for China being admitted into the World Trade Organization. China, which has possible the worst human rights record in tje civilized world, certainly is one of the biggest, if not the biggest global polluters and the most restrictive Communist regimes still in power. And they now hold much of the US national debt! It's not as if US manufacturing was thriving before China came on the scene, but the mass exodus that followed their admittance to the WTO pretty muchbkilled US manufacturing dead, and also resulted in much lower quality - albeit cheaper - manufactured goods. This is now the "standard".
Trump's campaign slogan, "Make America Great Again" to me includes addressing all these issues. The US was, during the Reagan era, a world superpower. America at that time was respected on the world stage - perhaps not loved or even liked by some, but respected nonetheless. Slick Willy, with his hatred for the military (remember, he dodged Vietnam) weakened the US, whichbled to the USS Cole attack, and it's been downhill ever since. With Obama, the US has become the laughing stock of the world. Russia openly is rebuilding its empire, invading its neighbors and the US wags its finger, for example. My devout hope is that Teump can reverse the downhill sliflde that Slick Willy started and Obama accelerated, and which Bush did little to reverse during his presidency.
There, I'm sure Ive5put a few of you to sleep, probably more than a few. But I feel very passionately about this and about reacuing this once great nation from the left, whichbwould "remake America" into a socialist country and end the "Great Experiment" which has been, up til recently, extremely successful.
Please excuse my rant.