Interesting discussion. Puts me in mind of a conversation I had in the spring with an American as we travelled by train between Krakow and Prague. Very amiable, interesting guy, and it was a six-hour journey, so inevitably we got to talking politics. ‘I’m voting for Trump,’ he said, and added, noticing my raised eyebrows, ‘Cos I gotta lotta guns.’ But we continued to have a very amiable discussion, and he made a number of similar points to your interviewee, namely getting stuff done for areas of high unemployment, foreign policy and Democrat corruption. All quite plausible as a political position.
But then I got home, watched the news and there was Trump, as unpleasant, as unhinged as ever. And to my mind there is only so far you can go with the ‘I know he’s an asshole, but…’
The prospect of Trump winning next month still scares me to death.
Interesting discussion. Puts me in mind of a conversation I had in the spring with an American as we travelled by train between Krakow and Prague. Very amiable, interesting guy, and it was a six-hour journey, so inevitably we got to talking politics. ‘I’m voting for Trump,’ he said, and added, noticing my raised eyebrows, ‘Cos I gotta lotta guns.’ But we continued to have a very amiable discussion, and he made a number of similar points to your interviewee, namely getting stuff done for areas of high unemployment, foreign policy and Democrat corruption. All quite plausible as a political position.
But then I got home, watched the news and there was Trump, as unpleasant, as unhinged as ever. And to my mind there is only so far you can go with the ‘I know he’s an asshole, but…’
The prospect of Trump winning next month still scares me to death.
Yup. Sadly I agree with Alan's analysis that Trump will win this time - tho not, to be clear, by any kind of landslide