Daily Archives: February 21, 2017

Misadventures of a minority-elect President 10

Trump’s supporters say they were bullied into supporting him and can’t understand why liberals are shunning them, Not my president protests abound, Trump perniciously compares himself to Lincoln and costs much more to protect than his predecessor did, White House cooking the books, the creeping Stalinism of Donald Trump, Trump’s unbroken streak of falsehoods now stands at 33 days, reality of a Trump presidency stressing people out, quietly enabling more rampant Wall Street fraud and more.

Donald Trump’s supporters have trouble understanding why liberals are shunning them article from Salon. –
http://www.salon.com/2017/02/20/donald-trumps-supporters-have-trouble-understanding-why-liberals-are-shunning-them/

“Trump supporters say they were bullied into supporting a very disliked president.

President Donald Trump’s approval ratings may have reached historic lows in record time, but even as 40 percent of the country wants him impeached, supporters of Trump seem mystified by the fierceness of the opposition he faces — even as individuals on the fence often admit to feeling turned off by that same hostility.

“They’re stonewalling everything that he’s doing because they’re just being babies about it,” Patricia Melani, a 56-year-old New Jersey transplant who attended Trump’s campaign rally in Florida on Saturday, told The Washington Post. “All the loudmouths? They need to let it go. Let it go. Shut their mouths and let the man do what he’s got to do. We all shut our mouths when Obama got in the second time around, okay? So that’s what really needs to be done…”

Anti-Trump ‘Not My President’s Day’ protests draw thousands across the US article from the World Socialist Web Site. –
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/02/21/prot-f21.html

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