Trump

Submitted by Frank Luke (United States), May 4, 2016 at 18:51

Trump is probably nobody's ideal president. He is most definitely not mine. However, we need him for one vital job. He is likely to break the nexus between big money and public policy. Democrats as well as Republicans have allowed big business groups to subvert policy in the fields of education, finance, and health care to name a few. This subverting of justice and public policy has held more than 150 million Americans in a state of ruin and many of us are living the American nightmare.

One hopes of course, that Trump will also declare war on Islamic extremists - and he seems likely to do that.

His tendency to be bombastic and autocratic should prove useful to end the nexus between big money and public policy. I do not think he will succeed in making this the "Trump Empire". We are too robust a nation to allow that to happen.

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