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Trump Supporters: What's the Most Important Issue?

What's the most important issue for Trump Supporters?

  • Trade/Jobs/Economy

    Votes: 12 44.4%

  • Immigration/The Wall

    Votes: 11 40.7%

  • Terrorism

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Foreign Affairs

    Votes: 1 3.7%

  • Health Care

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Taxes and Regulations

    Votes: 1 3.7%

  • Energy/Oil

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Gun Control

    Votes: 2 7.4%

  • Environment

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Education

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    27
Phys251 said:
Straight white male supremacy.
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So you just dismiss these people and don't even want to know what their real concerns are.

Maybe the Guardian in the UK is progressive enough for you?

Here's the money line: "So much easier to scold them for their twisted racist souls, to close our eyes to the obvious reality of which Trumpism is just a crude and ugly expression: that neoliberalism has well and truly failed."

Yep. Liberals dropped the ball, and Trump picked it up.
 
Abbazorkzog said:
I cannot support Trump due to his uncaring inconsiderate attitude towards the disabled, minorities and his supporters in general.
However, bar Sanders, he is our best chance to expose the Bush-Clinton Crime Syndicate for the monster that it is.
I used to hold the belief that Hillary was the lesser of two evils between he and Clinton, but I've found out otherwise.
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Vote libertarian then. Wont win, but youll never send a msg by continuing to endorse the lesser of two evils model of govt.
 
VanceMack said:
If you ask that question of the nation you will apparently find that 61% of ALL Americans think Immigration is pretty damned important.
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The survey you cite is from a Global CEO consultant group, not a major poller. this survey flags in the face of other, more well known polling companies, such a PEW or Gallop which puts 'interest' in immigration at half that. Harris puts it around 20%.

So you might want to hold off on claiming Americans want to curb immigration... :peace
 
longview said:
I think the list needed another category, Not a Washington insider/not Hillery
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Yeah, but why is that important? What is it that they are not doing right?
 
Ironically, given that he is the least trustworthy candidate on immigration, it's scoring second. Equally ironically, jobs and the economy are first.
 
LowDown said:
So you just dismiss these people and don't even want to know what their real concerns are.

Maybe the Guardian in the UK is progressive enough for you?

Here's the money line: "So much easier to scold them for their twisted racist souls, to close our eyes to the obvious reality of which Trumpism is just a crude and ugly expression: that neoliberalism has well and truly failed."

Yep. Liberals dropped the ball, and Trump picked it up.
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Just for clarification, "neoliberalism" is aka conservative economics:

Neoliberalism[1] is a term which has been used by scholars in a wide variety of social sciences[2] and critics[3] primarily in reference to the resurgence of 19th century ideas associated with laissez-faire economic liberalism beginning in the 1970s and 1980s.[4] Its advocates support extensive economic liberalization policies such as privatization, fiscal austerity, deregulation, free trade, and reductions in government spending in order to enhance the role of the private sector in the economy.[5][6][7][8][9][10][11] Neoliberalism is famously associated with the economic policies introduced by Margaret Thatcher in the United Kingdom and Ronald Reagan in the United States.
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LowDown said:
Here's the money line: "So much easier to scold them for their twisted racist souls, to close our eyes to the obvious reality of which Trumpism is just a crude and ugly expression: that neoliberalism has well and truly failed."
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I don't think neoliberalism means what YOU think it does...

Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher pushed neoliberalism in the 80's. reduce red tape, taxes, and provide incentives to grow the private sector.

The Rabid Right and it's trickle down has truly failed, made Donald a very wealthy man but it was the Rabid Right 'voodoo' economics that dropped the ball... :peace
 
LowDown said:
Yeah, but why is that important? What is it that they are not doing right?
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My opinion is that the Federal government has become out of control, the power has corrupted
them away from their charted responsibility.
You could call it a Freudian slip, but their words demonstrate that they now believe,
that the results of all labor belongs first to the government.
The actual laborer, is allowed to keep what they deem is acceptable.

Obama: “I do think at a certain point you’ve made enough money”
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Who decides?

Beyond my opinion, I think there is a wave of discontent building, where people think
something different could only be an improvement.
It is actually dangerous territory, because things could get worse!
 
LowDown said:
So you just dismiss these people and don't even want to know what their real concerns are.
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You accuse me of being defensive by being defensive. Nice.
 
Trump supporters may allude to "the issues" after the fact, but the foundational fact of their allegiance to Trump is emotional.

Trump supporters connect with him on an emotional level that reflects his fear of everything "foreign-looking" whether domestic or international, his anger about it, and his "I've had it" with being an American loser in it all.

Also, Trump presents emotionally as an underdog in the EQ (emotional quotient) department. Many people like to root for the underdog, especially if he's talking like a winner, as that keeps the feelings of being a loser at bay. In addition, many people share that level of EQ he presents and thus connect with him unconsciously.

Trump's IQ is alleged to be genius, and EQ often follows along with IQ (extreme nerds being the exception). Thus Trump's lower EQ emotional presentation style may be "trumped" up for effect.

Whether unconsciously oblivious or consciously performed, Trump's behavior is winning him votes.
 
notquiteright said:
The survey you cite is from a Global CEO consultant group, not a major poller. this survey flags in the face of other, more well known polling companies, such a PEW or Gallop which puts 'interest' in immigration at half that. Harris puts it around 20%.

So you might want to hold off on claiming Americans want to curb immigration... :peace
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You know of a ton of people that are excited about illegal immigration, do you? Or about the immigration of improperly vetted refugees?
 
Immigration and terrorism.

A good bit of Trump's base is made up of racist,bigoted xenophobes.
 
chiminator said:
Actually the article doesn't claim "that 61% of ALL Americans think Immigration is pretty damned important." What it does report are survey results claiming "Sixty-one percent of Americans agree that "continued immigration into the country jeopardizes the United States," according to a new poll commissioned by management consulting firm A.T. Kearney in partnership with market researcher NPD Group." Last year a Harris Pole found that 19% of Americans ranked immigration as a top issue for government to address. That's up from the 2002 result of 1%.



Immigration is how most of got here and immigrants always face resistance.
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I voted Trade/Jobs/Economy, BUT ILLEGAL Immigration is a close second for me, as the LEGAL US Citizens should be hired for American jobs....the Illegals can GO HOME!
 
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I'm honestly & consistently surprised at how many people are so feverishly angered by illegal immigration, and I honestly don't know anyone in real life who is concerned about it. I think it's evidence of how easy it is to get into a bubble over those sorts of things.
 
Sherman123 said:
I'm honestly & consistently surprised at how many people are so feverishly angered by illegal immigration, and I honestly don't know anyone in real life who is concerned about it. I think it's evidence of how easy it is to get into a bubble over those sorts of things.
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I know many who are concerned about it...esp. in the 'real world'.

My opinions/beliefs do not imm. change when I log out of here, and I think this is true fro most of us.
 
Cardinal said:
If you had the choice, would you be reincarnated as a black person so you could capitalize on all those advantages?
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Only if I could guarantee myself married parents, which is pretty rare for black children.
 
cpwill said:
Ironically, given that he is the least trustworthy candidate on immigration, it's scoring second. Equally ironically, jobs and the economy are first.
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More untrustworthy than Rubio?
 
phattonez said:
Interesting, so white racism offends you, but not black racism.
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What exactly is the effect on me of black racism in the United States. Is it a feeling that I don't belong, don't quite fit in, in a country with 13 percent black population? That wherever I go there seems to be a black policeman looking at me cross eyed? That I'm forever envious of my black neighbor's ancestors who came here on a slave ship when mine only came on the Mayflower!
Oh, please understand the burden I carry, being white.
 
notquiteright said:
I don't think neoliberalism means what YOU think it does...

Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher pushed neoliberalism in the 80's. reduce red tape, taxes, and provide incentives to grow the private sector.

The Rabid Right and it's trickle down has truly failed, made Donald a very wealthy man but it was the Rabid Right 'voodoo' economics that dropped the ball... :peace
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You missed the point of the article. Protecting the working class used to be a liberal issue, but Clinton and the Democratic establishment is well in the pocket of free trade/deindustrialization/off shoring industries, i.e., the donor class. Trump is the one talking about bringing jobs back, penalizing off shoring, and raising tariffs. That's why his talk of not being beholden to big corporations resonates.

Bill Clinton embraced neoliberal free trade policy, and so did Obama, and has Hillary.
 
shrubnose said:
Immigration and terrorism.

A good bit of Trump's base is made up of racist,bigoted xenophobes.
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And yet I am the guy who said 4 days ago that Rubio has a car lot in his future because he is washed up in his political career. I was on that story three days before anyone else.

Stick around, you might learn something.
 
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