Originally Posted by timlover

If you look at the majority of those town hall's, the majority of people in the room are old white people. Trust me, they are conservatives. They voted for Trump but are freaking out because they don't want to lose their health insurance and don't want the republicans to fuck with their medicare and social security. It's kind of a fucked up situation. Why vote for the Republican ticket then? I hear from my aunts and uncles who are in their 70's. I hear it from their friends. Their patience with Trump is hitting critical mass.

Illinois is Democratic only at the top of the state near Chicago when it comes to Presidential. State wide it is normally Democratic for gubernatorial. Senate and Reps are usually Republicans although we have Dems mixed in state wide.

The Ramussen Report is only one against a sea of others that clearly show the countries displeasure with Trump as well as globally.

It's great that you want to be optimistic, but that's only going to last as long as their are results coming in over a long term. The lack of results so far lands squarely on Trump and his mismanaged administration. He's trying to blame the media for that so he can buy more time. That might work, it might not. He still has over 450+ senate level confirmation cabinet positions to fill. He's filled 14.

The one thing about Trump supporters is that the seem to live in this elevated sense of how nothing can go wrong and the same dynamics of politics that have evolved over hundreds of years no longer apply and can't be held to Trump to explain what's going on.

You all still have time to brag about his win, say how things are going to be great again, his fuck ups aren't over the threshold yet . Time is on your side right now. Just understand that the more time that passes and the more shit he fucks up, eventually you're going to be standing there facing reality holding your junk in your hand wondering wtf happened. Just like every other human being whose been conned.

Trump is a pathological liar and a con artist. Eventually that is going to surface in someway that is going to come at severe odds with his job. Just like putting a recovering drunk in charge of a liquor shoppe. It's just a matter of time.