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Donald Trump is still the Republican front-runner for President. Only 22% of Republicans think he'd be a bad President, and 90% of Republicans say they'd support him in the general election. My question is, why?
- He's incredibly misinformed (or incredibly dishonest). He's called Bernie Sanders a communist multiple times, which means he has no idea what communism is. (It also means he knows nothing about democratic socialism or the many important countries that have already passed Sanders' reforms, like Germany, France, and Sweden.) You'd expect him to know something about his big issue, illegal immigration, but he has no idea how many illegal immigrants there are: He says we have over 30 million, when the true number is about 11 million. He's said America has "the highest taxes in the world" at at least three times—when we really have among the lowest taxes in the first world, and Denmark's taxes are twice as high. Of his claims that PolitiFact has checked, 7% have been "true" or "mostly true," which means he's about as accurate as chain emails. Shouldn't the President know something about politics? Everyone knows America has lower taxes than Denmark and France! Wolves know that!
- He's a racist bully. So far, he's insulted John McCain for being a prisoner of war (but he loves the veterans!), called Mexican immigrants rapists, tweeted "Our great African-American President hasn't exactly had a positive impact on the thugs who are so happily and openly destroying Baltimore," hired a spokeswoman who had publicly called Barack Obama a "half-breed," and re-tweeted inaccurate crime statistics about black people from a white nationalist twitter feed (presumably to compliment blacks, I don't know).
- He actively encourages violence. When some of his followers illegally assaulted a Black Lives Matter protester at his rally, Trump said "Maybe he should have been roughed up." At another rally, he said "If you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of them. Just knock the hell out of them. I promise you, I will pay for the legal fees." When he was questioned about the violence at his rallies, he said "I have no regrets. These were very, very bad protesters. These were bad dudes. They were rough, rough guys." If they're so rough, why aren't they the ones initiating the violence?
- His policies make no sense, and even contradict each other. He says he'll balance the budget, even though he wants to cut taxes by over a trillion dollars a year. It's impossible to cut that much spending on his terms. Let me explain: He wants to expand the military and leave Social Security and Medicare alone. Since the military, Social Security, Medicare, and interest on the debt make up almost 80% of the federal budget, we spend about $726 billion on everything else combined. Add in veterans' benefits (which I assume he doesn't want to cut since he says he'll "fight for veterans"), and it's $565 billion. So even if we spend zero dollars on everything Trump hasn't promised he won't cut (including roads, bridges, education, housing, welfare, Medicaid, public transportation, food stamps, scientific research, foreign aid, environmental protection, etc.), and we don't increase spending on anything, his policies would still create a deficit of around a trillion dollars. (Of course, it's possible that we'll have massive economic growth so revenue would fall less than expected under his plans—but he can't promise that will happen. Either way, the idea that his policies would create a balanced budget is laughable.)
Most of his other ideas are just as irrational. He wants to ban Muslims from entering the country to stop terrorism, even though there's no way to tell who's a Muslim and who isn't, and terrorists kill less than 20 people a year (you might as well be scared of elves). He wants to build a border wall to keep out "the illegals," even though net illegal immigration from Mexico has been at zero for ten years (which explains why one of his campaign advertisements supposedly showing Mexicans "swarming over our Southern border" was actually using footage from Morocco). He supports a 35% tariff on Mexican exports and a 45% tariff on China, even though virtually all economists support free trade. He doesn't want to do anything about global warming, since he thinks it's a hoax. He wants to return to the gold standard, even though virtually all economists think it's a horrible idea (I know an economist and a political scientist, and they both say it would cause another Great Depression).
- He's a complete lunatic. According to him, Obama stole the last election, Ted Cruz stole Iowa, vaccines cause autism (and all the research saying otherwise is "fudged-up"), Barack Obama might be a Muslim Kenyan, and the Chinese made up global warming to hurt American manufacturing. He's also a 9/11 Truther. Even if you support some of his policies, do you want someone this crazy and impulsive to have the nuclear launch codes?
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