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Showing Original Post only (View all)So... what will happen when Trump fails to deliver? [View all]
This is the big question in my mind. It's not a question of if he will fail to deliver. He will fail. He (and his supporters) entire premise is flawed. White uneducated people in poor socioeconomic situations, despite their belief to the contrary, are not in their condition due to "the other"... but rather due to overall structural economic changes. We are an information economy now; not an industrial economy. They are struggling because they lack the knowledge, skills, and abilities to compete in this type of economy - not because of someone with different color skin. (A situation, which, ironically, both Sanders and Clinton offered them an actual realistic, although not easy, solution for... in their plans to make job training, education, etc more possible for them.)
Trump promised to "bring their [manufacturing] jobs back". This is akin to a politician during the height of the industrial revolution promising to bring back agricultural jobs to farmers on a grand scale. The government simply lacks the ability to do this; only the market can do this... and it certainly will not. Therefore, Trump will fail to deliver in a profound way. In fact, his economic plans (basically handing out cash to corporations and removing all regulations), ironically, will only expedite the steamroll towards information centered jobs.
So, the question on my mind is, in four years, when the majority of his white voters find themselves to be in exactly the same condition (or worse), what will they do?
I figure that there are two likely possibilities. One, they see Trump as his cohorts for the charlatans that they are, and he becomes a one term president... or two, they assume Trump and his cohorts weren't fascist enough and continue to back them to an even greater extreme.
My bet is on option one (a small, but sizeable enough group, turn on him sufficiently to defeat him in the next election). I only see this failing should there be a war or another 9/11 type of event that conveniently leads to a "rally around the president" type of effect.