"Drain the swamp" of all those P.C. liberals! Turns out Trumpers don't care about lobbyists or...

[DonViejo]

“Drain the swamp” — of all those P.C. liberals! Turns out Trumpers don’t care about lobbyists or plutocrats

New polling data suggests Trump supporters don't know or care about economics, but yearn to fight the culture war

AMANDA MARCOTTE

During the campaign, Donald Trump frequently promised that once in Washington he would “drain the swamp.” That phrase was generously interpreted by huge swaths of the news media to mean that Trump intended, in populist style, to reduce the influence of elite bankers and corporate lobbyists in politics. That, in turn, means that the president-elect has been accused of hypocrisy when he immediately turned around and started hiring a bunch of bankers and billionaires and other such swamp critters.

But there’s little evidence that Trump’s supporters ever thought he was talking about the influence of financial elites or big corporations when he swore to drain that swamp. On the contrary, they seem to have understood it as an attack on liberalism and its defenders.

A new poll, conducted by the Glover Park Group and Morning Consult, was released on Tuesday that asked a series of far-ranging and in-depth questions of Trump supporters. What one finds, digging into the results, is that Trump’s base has no coherent ideology around economic issues like trade policy or financial regulation.

When it comes to hot-button issues around race, gender or general hatred of liberal ideas, that’s where you get a cohesive set of opinions from Trump voters. Needless to say, it’s not pretty.

For instance, here are the results of a poll question about regulation of financial industries, which was exactly the sort of thing that liberal audiences (and many mainstream journalists) thought Trump meant by “drain the swamp.”



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[pangaia]

1. They are too stupid to know or understand 'regulations,'..

and the effect they have on their lives..

They do not know anything about foreign trade because they don't know where other countries are.. except Canada and Mexico.

Just ask one of them where the Panama Canal is????

[DetlefK]

2. 2193 miles south of the Real America

[atreides1]

3. Maybe they'll understand

When they watch a loved one die from tainted food, because regulations have been done away with!!!

[pangaia]

4. Maybe, but I doubt it..

[Historic NY]

5. Gods will.....

wasn't it what they said about the election.

[Mendocino]

6. Meet the new swamp

worse than the old swamp.