They like him, they really like him
by digby
... and they voted for him because he's a Republican and they agree with him:
I'm ecstatic! It's a breath of fresh air," Judy Griffin exclaimed when I asked her about the nascent Trump presidency. "The country was going on a near-death experience collision. Political correctness was about to strangle us all." ...
Griffin, formerly the director of development for a Christian school, described herself as "very conservative" and "very pro-life." She said she wants Trump to take on ISIS because "you have to confront evil." She also wants him to rebuild the military, reduce the national debt and bring back jobs -- things she criticized former President Barack Obama for failing to do...
[Gail] Francioli offered a substantial list of subjects on which she agrees with Trump. "He's going to increase the military, going to protect this country, build a wall, border control, Obamacare," she said. "He's bringing jobs back." A regular participant in church-led marches outside an abortion clinic, she added that she expects Trump to place further restrictions on the procedure....
[David Searles] favors Trump's push to roll back regulations that Searles said have "stifled" businesses, including the software company that hasn't been stable enough to give him a raise in 10 years.
Internationally, Searles said he is optimistic that the US will "have a stronger presence on the world stage." He appreciates Trump's tough talk.
"I felt that the Obama administration was preoccupied with not offending people..."
And they too believe the media is the enemy:
Like many Trump supporters, Housel is not troubled by negative news reports about Trump. In fact, she shares his assessment that journalists are not always honest (though she said she felt sheepish about saying that to an actual journalist).
"I was raised as a young girl not to trust the media," she said. Housel told me that her father, an Army veteran, offered this cold counsel: "If you're ever in a wartime situation, shoot the guy with the camera and then the enemy."
What a nice lady.
All of this is contrary to the latest scold coming from certain quarters of the media (and, unfortunately, certain quarters of the left as well) that says it's the protests and furious resistance that are driving otherwise lovely, decent people into the arms of Trump. Republican voted for him because they like him and they agree with his policies. They think that Democrats are "politically correct" with all their "identity politics" and even if we were all nice boys and girls and didn't raise a fuss about the cretinous imbecile in the White House, they would feel exactly the same way.
These people voted for and still support Trump because they agree with him. It's not complicated.
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