You
voted for a man who boasted of sexual assault, a man whose “university”
defrauded thousands of people, a billionaire who thought the minimum
wage was too high. You switched from Barack Obama in 2012 to Donald
Trump in 2016 — one in four white working-class voters — because you
thought he was on your side.
You
don’t mind the lying. In fact, you’re all in with the biggest lies, the
baseless claims that three million people voted illegally, that Obama
ordered a wiretap of Trump Tower, and on, and on. The lying is
disruptive. Yay for disruption!
You
don’t mind the flip-flops. Last year, Trump said the unemployment rate
was “one of the biggest hoaxes in American history.” This year, because
he’s president, it’s very real. Last year, Wall Street was a puppeteer
for the Democrats. Now your man has brought in Goldman Sachs puppeteers
to run the economy. Last year, a golfing president was lazy. Now your
guy has paid 14 presidential visits to a golf course.
You’re
not bothered by the foreign policy incompetence, the siding up to
gangster regimes and human rights violators, the snub of the rest of the
world in the name of America First. You don’t mind unleashing
polluters. If the job creators want filthy air and foul water, give it
to them.
You
shrug at all of this hypocrisy and craziness, because you still think
he’s going to help you. But you’ve been played, sucker-punched, duped.
You can continue to believe Trump has your back, but the evidence is
already overwhelming that the people his presidency will hurt most are
those at the bottom who gave him their trust.
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