Since the article I published earlier today had a more negative tone, I want to end the day on a more positive note. As I explained in yesterday’s piece, I want Trump to be successful because our fellow countrymen and women need him to succeed. This isn’t an episode of Game of Thrones, this is real life and millions of Americans are in deep pain.
In order to be a truly great president, Trump needs to unite as many Americans as possible around his agenda. On the positive front, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders have both pledged to work with Trump in order to help our less fortunate fellow citizens get back on the right track. I really hope this happens.
As David Sirota highlighted at International Business Times:
During his unorthodox Republican presidential campaign, Donald Trump at times touted his support for longtime progressive causes, promising to reform trade deals, invest in infrastructure, reinstate a key Depression-era financial regulation and combat political corruption. Now, some of Trump’s harshest progressive critics are offering their support for the president-elect on the issues on which they seem to agree.
In a speech at the nation’s largest labor federation, Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren said Americans are right to be angry that “Washington dithers and spins and does the backstroke in an ocean of money, while the American Dream moves further and further out of reach for too many families.” She credited Trump for spotlighting the problem.
“President-Elect Trump spoke to these issues. Republican elites hated him for it. But he didn’t care,” she told the AFL-CIO. “So let me be 100 percent clear about this. When President-Elect Trump wants to take on these issues, when his goal is to increase the economic security of middle class families, then count me in. I will put aside our differences and I will work with him to accomplish that goal. I offer to work as hard as I can and to pull as many people as I can into this effort. If Trump is ready to go on rebuilding economic security for millions of Americans, so am I and so are a lot of other people-Democrats and Republicans.”
Sen. Bernie Sanders, the Vermont independent who challenged Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination, expressed a similar sentiment.
“Trump tapped into the anger of a declining middle class that is sick and tired of establishment economics, establishment politics and the establishment media,” he said in a press release. “To the degree that Mr. Trump is serious about pursuing policies that improve the lives of working families in this country, I and other progressives are prepared to work with him.”
This would be a very good thing for Trump’s Presidency and for America as a whole.
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Michael Krieger
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In non Battle Ground States, people don’t vote because their votes don’t count especially if you are in the minority in your state, be it red state or blue state.
Non Battle Ground:
California: 39,497,000 population, 8,459,246 voted (21%)
New York: 19,378,102 population, 6,784,444 voted (29%)
Battle Ground States:
Florida:18,801,310 population, 9,091,260 voted (48%)
Pennsylvania: 12,702,379 population, 5,757,646 voted (45%)
So, looking at the popular vote across the US makes no sense because in states where people are confident their vote won’t matter, they tend to vote a whole lot less. So if you want to count the popular vote, make the popular vote count and get rid of the electoral college. Make every state a “battle ground state”.
Unfortunately that sentiment reemerges once every four years in early November and lingers for about a week before it is once again forgotten. It would require a Constitutional amendment to abolish, something absolutely impossible in this deeply divided (and largely ill-informed) nation.
Unfortunately, that would mean that the concerns of voters in the largely rural states would be ignored. These areas provide the basic needs of the rest of the country: farm produce, cattle and dairy, and logging to build our homes.
Many thanks for your excellent coverage of this election and its aftermath, Michael. Incidentally I want to express an unrelated ‘mea culpa’. A short while ago I expressed the view on this blog that as a British person I failed to understand the obsession with keeping the Second Amendment. However, I’ve come to appreciate that the motives for getting rid of guns are not as squeaky clean as the anti-gun lobby pretend, and that the right to bear arms could be a major bulwark against the tyranny of a hopelessly corrupt government. It’s good to learn to see a different perspective.
Too bad as a Brit, you didn’t learn that lesson before your corrupt system not only took away guns, but knives as well!!
Dear Michael,
First, thank you for your articles, I enjoy reading them!
Second, and more importantly: In your recent posts, you stated that “People = Policy” and that you would like to see someone like Scott Adams close President Trump (and not others like Chris Christie). I have a suggestion that might help:
Donald Trump has a brand new website on which people can apply for his team, and on which you can submit your ideas. The adress of Trump’s new website is:
https://www.greatagain.gov/
Michael, you have great political insight and you know how to articulate your arguments well. Therefore, my suggestion is for you to go to the website and submit your ideas, or call / write the people you admire to apply for Donald Trump’s team. I think it could be an unique opportunity! It might take some effort, but the payoff would be incalculable. Wouldn’t that be something, if you just did that and that would just make the difference between a failed presidency and a successful one? 🙂
Kind regards,
Mason