So in your mind, someone in office who constantly smiles and delivers polite platitudes is the perfect leader, all the while they largely ignore a huge swath of the country's wishes. Their policies are slowly gutting the US economy, allowing rampant illegal immigration, and changing the laws so that tolerance is more important than justice (not social justice). I get it. That's what the libs and the RINOs want. It's also why Donald Trump was elected - because millions upon millions of people are sick and tired of identity politics, being demeaned for their beliefs, and are done with being ignored for years. Libs are always for "the other", while they look with revulsion and disgust at actual citizens - people who their political and social policies have decimated.
Trump is certainly not perfect, but it takes a leader like him with the cajones to fight the deep state, the entrenched swamp which favors the open borders and neoliberal globalist agenda, the corrupt left-wing media which does the bidding of their neoliberal masters....A less tough-minded man would wilt under the unending barrage of half-truths and spin. What's up is down, what's right is wrong in their jaundiced, cynical worldview.
but why has trump been increasingly complicit with the deep state, rather than fighting it? many things are continuing, and some even getting worse. always follow the money. the country continues to be run by the unelected, the corporatized, the militarized officials. meanwhile we continue to lose freedoms, hearing it as a lazy or twisted sales pitch for national security or global peace.
lets look at what he and the administration does (or does not do), in addition to what he says...
--the military industrial complex is alive and well.
u.s. troops continue dying abroad. once a verbal desire to remove americans from areas/countries, quickly changes to keeping a global presence. and its an ever expanding nationalist military program, as government steals/spends more and more taxpayer money to feed their addiction.
--nato: once obsolete and without purpose is now:
"i believe in nato.... very unified, very strong."
the sales pitch is that other countries are going to contribute more $ and pull their weight. but why? why steal & force $ away from citizens of other countries when we don't want to pay $ either? we continue to fund the org. once intended to disappear.
--trump calling-out u.s. intelligence during the putin/russia talks, but quickly succumbed & awkwardly changed his statements the very next day.
--now selecting war/regime change guys like bolton, pompeo, etc.
--even flipped on releasing the JFK assassination records, complying with intelligence officials on the final day.
--surveillance state:
----domestic & global spying: continues with the inappropriate marriage with the private/corp sector.
----patriot act/NDAA; constitutional rights of average citizens continue to be brushed aside. the wealthy, political elite only cry foul when violations occur amongst themselves.
--militarized police state:
---surplus military supplies allowed to be transferred to local/state law enforcement
---swat team raids (>80,000 per year, at times over even non-criminal activity. botched raids, even casualties)
--over-criminalization: endless laws, codes, regs, etc enforced by the militarized police state
