MarkkyStorm said:
That's why he was elected in the first place. For the comeback of a little sanity and reasonability. But, I'm a little afraid that maybe he could turn out to just used that for vote. |
He was elected on a platform that included leaving this issue where it was, and even said that Caitlyn Jenner was welcome to use any bathroom in Trump Tower. I had hoped that Trump would be true to his campaign statements where he showed some compassion towards programmes like welfare.
I had hoped he'd try to "drain the swamp" with sweeping campaign finance reform that brought power to the people by taking the big money out of politics, since it would serve him to do so by denying his opponents their vast ill-gotten war chests, whereas he had been so successful running his campaign on such a small budget. The amount of gerrymandering in U.S. politics is a global embarassment, and shocking to people in many other countries. Canada, for example, has an independent national electoral commission (Elections Canada) that decide the geographic distribution of the districts, and wouldn't allow for the kinds of games going on in the U.S. where Republicans at the State and local levels carve up the districts in the ways that are most advantageous to Republican electoral prospects as opposed to the fairest for democracy. In contrast, the head of Elections Canada is so independent that they're not even allowed to vote, as it would be unseemly for someone running the electoral process to even be thinking about who they might prefer to win.
Anyway, it'll be interesting to see how Trump's supporters who like him because he "tells it like it is" will react to him repudiating specific campaign promises, such as his pledge to protect the LGBTQ community better than Hillary Clinton every would.
