More on Why You Cannot Reason With Trump Supporters

Before I get to the last article in The New Republic, one only has to read Jennifer Rubin's column of yesterday to realize how far from traditional GOP policies Donald Trump is campaigning.  As I learned studying Economics and more so in business school, the strength of capitalism as the best allocator of labor and capital to the point of greatest return is creative destruction.  That is why my economic beliefs will sometimes agree with traditional GOP ideas and sometimes with traditional Democratic ideas.  Nothing the government does should get in the way of that creative destruction.   Yet, it is precisely on that point that Donald Trump is campaigning.  He wants to inhibit creative destruction by killing trade treaties and supporting people who do not want to move or learn new things.

Link to Jennifer Rubin's column

Again I don't have access to The New Republic website to put links into this column so I urge you to buy the October 2016 issue on a newsstand.

The last article examines the writing of two people who have studied the Tea Party/Trumpists.  They are mad about a lot of things and the result is the perversity that they will support someone who voices that anger even though the substance of his policies will not undo the environmental damage they are angry about, will not bring back jobs that were destroyed by advances in technology, and require that people they perceive as getting favorable treatment from the government be discriminated against in some form by policies they want.  They remember verbal slights and do not forgive them and they do not trust the government even when they benefit from rules and actions of the government.  They perceive a loss of honor and dignity in their life and want to restore it. Because they blame the establishment of both political parties, they will vote for Trump no matter the illogic of what he is saying nor his unfitness to hold the office of President.

It is both a depressing article and a scary one.  We can only hope that significant voters for Hillary are going unrepresented in polls because such people don't answer robo calls.  I don't want intolerance, narcissism, ignorance and illogic to become a winning campaign strategy and I certainly don't want a Putin admirer to be our President.

I am also hoping that the New York Attorney General indicts Trump for illegal dealings with his charity, but I suspect some underling will be the signer of the documents and therefore the one who takes the fall for that.  I suspect Trump limits all his instructions to underlings in verbal form.

Oh Vey!!!