In the name of GOD, Wisconsin - stop sending Paul Ryan to congress!
Posted on 04/22/2017 8:06:20 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Last fall, just weeks before Election Day, I traveled the old Lincoln Highway, from the Appalachian Mountains to the Rockies, to learn the attitudes of voters who lived miles from the off-ramps of the main interstates and coastal America.
Known as US 30, the mostly two-lane highway connects 13 states and 128 counties between Times Square and San Francisco.
It was on that trip, especially in the Rust Belt states of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Iowa, that a realization unfolded: Many had already decided they were not voting for Hillary Clinton.
These voters appeared to defy polls and conventional wisdom. If you believed what they said, it quickly became evident that this corner of the country was going to help elect the first true non-politician in our 240-year history — one who had never held public office nor served as a general — to the presidency.
Today, almost 100 days after President Donald J. Trump’s inauguration, many Americans still remain suspended at the stroke of midnight, Nov. 8, 2016. On that day, those who voted for him were giddy and optimistic, and those who never saw it coming felt disbelief and repulsion, refusing to concede that he won.
And now? “Nothing has changed,” said Rob Hughes, a registered Democrat and retired businessman from Bulger, Pa., who I met on my cross-country trip, told me last week. “Well, that’s probably not entirely true. I think I like him more now that he is the president.”(continued)
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
We feel amazingly GREAT.
Agree with the Dem in the article.... even better...now that he’s Prez.
I voted for him. A- although most blame for slow progress should probably be placed on congress.
As long as he still fights, I am with him.
Nice, professional followup article by the only journalist who saw what was coming in the Rust Belt last year. Pity we can’t clone her.
“...How Trump voters feel...”
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Trump voters are not a homogeneous group.
Not one piece of legislature out of the House!
I’m having no problems. Remorse is not in my list of adjectives.
>> Trump voters are not a homogeneous group.
Absolutely.
During the campaign, I saw rally lines spanning blocks filled with folks of all stripes. It was amazing.
How do I feel? NYTOW: Not Yet Tired of Winning.
Now have we won everything we wanted? No. But we have won a lot.
Most of the Republicans in Congress are either gutless, disloyal, lazy, or all three. It is pathetic that we pay them $200k to ignore their responsibilities failure to uphold their sworn obligations to the country and our Constitution.
Great comment. Well stated.
This enthusiastic Trump voter feels very good about the President’s first 100 days. Keep these things in mind:
1) 95% of the mainstream media is against him.
2) The entire Democrat party is against him, no matter what.
3) A sizable segment of the Republican party is either against him, or simply not willing to help.
Yet, Mr. Trump is forging ahead. The MSM would have us believe he’s failing and highly unpopular, yet it seems to me he’s laying the groundwork, piece by piece, for a roaring economy. The Dims will seem extra petty and shrill trying to holler through a strong economy.
No legislation churned out of the House, yet, isn’t something that bothers me.
I’m kinda sick and tired of congress treating the production of legislation like a soviet factory desperate to make quota and with the same lack of quality control.
Same here; well put. Any time I think about my wish list and what hasn’t been fulfilled, I’ll remember Hillary and thank God Trump is there instead.
I am not tired of all this winning. GO TRUMP GO
I, for one, feel great. Any Trump voter who has second thoughts,... imagine how you would be feeling if they were celebrating Hillary’s first 100 days.
He is a president without a party.
He is forced to play with the cards he has.
The disappointment is the depth of the swamp.
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