Two Months In, Voters Are Not Happy About Total Republican Control Of Government

[FORD]

[Terry]

Yeah, well, Trump has his core of supporters who still have an attitude of "it's early, let's wait and see"...the low Congressional polling approval percentages are in no way a surprise: these numbers have been at such lows for quite some time.

Maybe the draconian financial effects of what Trump and his Administration are proposing to do (quite different from the arid promises Trump made during the campaign) as they will pertain to working class voters are starting to dawn on some of those who voted for Trump. I mean, it wasn't as if during the campaign Trump explicitly said he was going to stock his Administration with millionaires and billionaires who had a shared philosophy of privatizing government services and enacting austerity measures for 90% of the country while giving massive tax breaks to the top earning tier. That this is now the reality has dawned on some who pushed a screen for him: his campaign populism was a fraud, and his veneer of being a successful businessman in real estate and name branding who therefore would be able to translate that into running a bureaucracy and implementing public policies that would prove beneficial to working class voters has been starkly exposed for the con it was all along.

I think it's the level of bumbling incompetence his team has thus far demonstrated that is proving most disheartening. Trump has surrounded himself with 2nd and 3rd raters who managed to help him eke out a victory last fall but clearly are not qualified (probably never were qualified and probably will prove unable to up their game via the Peter Principle) to transition into Executive Branch roles and serve their candidate well in victory. Steve Bannon can make all the noise he wants about anarchical intentional state deconstruction policies, but an inability to manage governmental affairs at a staff level really isn't anything more eloquent than that.

Throw all of that in the blender with these disquieting Russian contacts upwards of a dozen Trump staffers/family members had throughout last year (the frequency, nature and purpose of which still isn't clear yet)...there's very little to boast about. Trump took a flamethrower to virtually every politician during the campaign and beyond, seemingly unaware he was going to require congressional support to enact his agenda, which was abundantly clear with the first round of the Obamacare repeal failure. In addition, he seems to think he can still govern via tweet and exclusive use of Executive Orders. The Congress has the power of the purse, so if Trump actually wants to do something 'yuge' via infrastructure, he's going to actually have to develop some relationships with the Hill that are outside the strategy of threatening via Twitter to 'primary' those who don't go along with him every step of the way.

Frankly, I don't think Trump in terms of his personality is up to any of what is required of the office. He likes rallies and likes the attention and likes high approval ratings. Well, he's still holding rallies, and he certainly has everybody's attention. As to the last part, I suppose we'll see where we are in 3 years, assuming he makes it that far.

[Kristy]

So a government of pseudo-left socialist is the answer?

Get the fuck out of here with this shit, slave FORD

[FORD]

Well, you're such an IKEA fan. Maybe you should call their head office and ask them how a "government of pseudo-left socialists" is working for them. And their neighboring countries which are also doing well.

[Terry]

The idea that American government has to be some binary choice is a false narrative, anyway.

[Kristy]

Particle board is not a political issue, slave FORD