More TrumpRegrets every day: Now the hard-right nationalists are losing their religion [View all]

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More TrumpRegrets every day: Now the hard-right nationalists are losing their religion
He's not locking up Hillary, he can't deliver cheap health care and now he's a warmonger. This could get ugly, fast
Heather Digby Parton Friday, Apr 14, 2017 12:00 PM EDT

The story of the regretful Donald Trump voter has already become a cliché. It started even before the inauguration, with reporters venturing out into the wilds of real America to talk to the most fascinating people on Earth and find out how they’re feeling on any given day. The Trump voter has a lot of feelings, you see. And we want to know about every single one of them, all the time.

During the transition before his inauguration we learned that a lot of Trump’s voters were upset when their hero declined to arrest Hillary Clinton and “lock her up.” Evidently when they heard him say, “drain the swamp,” they thought that was what he meant. Indeed, the thrill of seeing the much-loathed former secretary of state clapped in handcuffs was the main reason many of them voted for him. For a time they could have put their hopes in House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Jason Chaffetz but alas even he seems to have lost interest.

After the Obamacare repeal-and-replace debacle, we had another spate of reports from Trump country, with The New York Times reporting that many people were stunned to learn that the Republican plan would have raised their premiums. They couldn’t believe that Trump’s promises of much lower costs and much better coverage (“and quickly!”) were nothing more than hot air.

More recently, we’ve had stories of Trump voters who were surprised to find out that their family members were being deported under his draconian immigration policies.

http://www.salon.com/2017/04/14/more-trumpregrets-every-day-now-the-hard-right-nationalists-are-losing-their-religion/