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struggle4progress

(126,011 posts)
Sun Feb 26, 2017, 08:55 PM Feb 2017

These Iowans voted for Trump [View all]

By Jenna Johnson
February 26 at 6:30 PM

... “I didn’t think he would come in blazing like he has,” said Godat, 39, who has three kids and works at the same aluminum rolling plant where his father worked. “It seems almost like a dictatorship at times. He’s got a lot of controversial stuff going on and rather than thinking it through, I’m afraid that he’s jumping into the frying pan with both feet” ...

“He’s really hurting us, even though everybody around here is conservative,” Schurbon said, thumping his bottle of Budweiser on the table to emphasize some of his points. “When you cut off trade, that cuts off everything. Where do our crops go? They don’t stay here” ...

Ring agreed: “We have to be adults and whoever is elected, we’re going to have to follow them.”

Ring paused and then added: “But he’s very hard to follow.”


https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/these-iowans-voted-for-trump-many-of-them-are-already-disappointed/2017/02/26/18f86b86-fa8d-11e6-be05-1a3817ac21a5_story.html?utm_term=.090affe9466a

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These Iowans voted for Trump [View all] struggle4progress Feb 2017 OP
They haven't seen anything yet. The markets haven't dried up yet. This is just talk, they aren't Squinch Feb 2017 #1
Candidate Trump was telling it like it is gratuitous Feb 2017 #2
NAFTA sucks! Obamacare sucks! Horse with no Name Feb 2017 #3
It's going to get worse for them. roamer65 Feb 2017 #4
Unfortunately not only for them. LisaL Feb 2017 #6
Very true. roamer65 Feb 2017 #11
Just wait until next year this time hibbing Feb 2017 #5
I all for ProudLib72 Feb 2017 #7
You are against government subsides, like those of the ACA?? How do you boycott farmers? Fred Sanders Feb 2017 #21
farm subsidies ProudLib72 Feb 2017 #22
"but protests and negative commentary are not helping" dalton99a Feb 2017 #8
Waiting for Godat ..... to get a clue (he did) underpants Feb 2017 #9
Voting has consequences. sellitman Feb 2017 #10
No, it doesn't. yagotme Feb 2017 #19
I'll still say it. Anyone who voted Trump, after all the shit he pulled during election season... backscatter712 Feb 2017 #12
AMEN n/t jrthin Feb 2017 #13
be not too hard struggle4progress Feb 2017 #15
how do we make thise people understand.... Takket Feb 2017 #14
I, in no way feel sorry for them. In fact, I find their confusion JDC Feb 2017 #16
Good politics involves persuasion, changed minds, and shifting coalitions struggle4progress Feb 2017 #18
It also requires understanding where gains can be had and losses conceded JDC Feb 2017 #20
That was the risk with nominating Clinton madville Feb 2017 #17
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