Where The Trump Voters Came From

I saw a comment at this marvelous video that explains where at least some of the Trump Democrats were coming from.

CHAS1422

I changed my party affiliation 6 months ago. I voted in Trump and accepted him as the pro-wrestling version of Demosthenes. Trump is the medicine to the inculcated echo chamber of the left. He is terrible at rhetoric, but he knows who is good and will pull them in to his circle of influence. In reality Trump is a Chuck Schumer Democrat who saw the tyranny of the left, and went full right to oppose it. I followed. Now the left is throwing out pejoratives like “racist”, “bigot”, “misogynist”, “Islamophobe”, as though it were candy at a halloween party. My trek started 3 years ago when I questioned the Obama/Clinton administration’s support of Muslim Brotherhood agendas in Egypt and the supply of arms to the Islamists fighting the Assad regime in Syria. The growing SJW movements were the final influence. I grabbed the pendulum as it swung past me.

We have had nothing but lies from the government for what? Probably forever. Immediately post 9/11 I was pissed. And so I was in a WAR mode. I wanted BLOOD. And I got it too. Rivers of it. Iraq. Afghanistan. But at least that was enough for me. My blood lust was sated. And then Libya. Syria. Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen.

After 15 years I’m tired of Blood. I should have kept to what I learned from Vietnam. Or at minimum kept in mind what I learned from Prohibition (The Government lies). But 9/11 was such a goad. I recall at the time that I was not alone. Bush got re-elected in 2004.

But I have had enough. I had enough by 2008. Leave Afghanistan. Pacify Iraq (a fifty year job – we broke it we pay for it). Enough. And then Obama comes and the Middle East gets more locations bombed. I sure wasn’t going to vote for Hillary.

Trump with some of his Cabinet picks is worrying. But I’m going to withhold judgment until I see how he governs. At least with Trump there was/is a chance (probably small though I thought it was 50-50 at the time) that things would be different. With Hillary there was no chance.