Draining the swamp and Trump followers

The 2016 election was about many things. The majority of the country were satisfied with more things, and even with Hillary as the establishment, Obama part 2. But the very vocal white working class thought things should change. In their minds they simply wanted jobs by whatever means. Unskilled labor was the part of the economy that was dragging and we got these guys.

The problem is that the actions Trump came up with are not helping the economy as a whole. There may be more jobs in coal mining areas (though most of it is not in mines, the Wyoming coal is just mostly scooped up). Steel jobs may have improved with Trump tariffs, but not the industries using that steel.

The problem we are facing is that these Trump voters are unwilling to change their lives in any way. The voters who voted Trump are going to be a key in elections in 2018 and 2020 no matter what happens to Trump. They will feel cheated if Trump is put aside and the party just continues some of his themes. The party never gave a damn about the white working class, they simply went along with all this just to get tax cuts for the wealthy class. Lobbyists also got something with the EPA essentially put on hold till Trump is gone.

The other part of draining the swamp, in the minds of the white working class, was to get rid of all the politicians established in DC for decades, the special interest groups guarding minorities. These things such as race and sexual minorities were not any part of Trump backers.

At this point we must point out that they are a minority. Working classes from 1900-1960 had a hard time moving up the ladder. They might move up to the middle class by becoming business owners. Education was not yet for the masses. For a while (1970s) even kids from working classes went to college and had a bit of success. The new white working class is a bit more of a failure. There is no interest, or perhaps the funds, to get a college education. Many just do not have the smarts for a college degree. But we cannot use this in politics, we cannot address them as losers.

Populism tends to run its course when the populace have had time to vent their frustrations and when things come to a halt as the result of presidential actions failing to meet everyday government tasks.

The Wall will not bring jobs for long, and it does not even solve the problem of illegals. There are millions already here. The tariffs Trump introduced will take a year or two to go to full effect. The rural voters will still not admit they made a mistake and that the Trump plan was a failure. "At least he tried, he was working for us!" they will claim.

There will maybe be one permanent effect: two more conservative judges. Draining the swamp will give Evangelicals something. Nobody else got anything. Well, corporations did. The Trump voter will have a hard time facing up to the fact that Trump stood with corporations every time against citizens. He in fact is mainly a corporation. Very little humanity in this man who is failing to connect with most of the country in a leader role. To but it bluntly, he is daily an asshole to most of us.