For some perhaps but I highly doubt a plurality let alone majority.
I think Obama tried, I didn't like McCain. Romney showed his interests hardly laid with pursuing the hopes of the republican base. So overall everyone (inc republicans) probably did pretty well with Obama in terms of options even if many die hard partisans will never admit nor understand that an enemy within is worse than an enemy without. That said, there was a lot of suspcious politicking but that hardly just upto a presdient. Congress continues to be unpopular unsupported mess on both sides of the aisle with the odd gem. Presidentally I honestly think the "problems" started with HW Bush, but he's just before my time and obviously the senitment goes back to a culture shift in the 1960s. Some changes we like (new cultural freedoms) and other we hate with the passion of 1000 suns(disrespect and move away from americanism). It is the culture war where MAGA stands strongest. A symbol conservatism is still strong, united and being heard.
Toward Trump, I like him, I trust he's pro american intrests, war skeptic but not naiviely so, anti-establishment but not so much as to be ineffective(e.g. Ron Paul). I think he is addressing some unsustainable growth trends(inc border security). Hillary likely would have been worse but she'd be hard to predict. Maybe similar to Obama politically the realities and compromise will turn Trumps objectives in retrospect into a somthing I conclude was generally a bad direction. So far I am not over the moon but not feeling betryed either.
The current way I see it though is he represents a overall course correction back from a slow drift away from Americanism, specifically attention on the economic engine and income mobility(low taxation & niche oppurtunity).On the balance that's needed and long neglected. Obama was a trial of some noble ideas that in the american reality I think went sour but didn't break the system or anything. The way I see it I wear MAGA proud, patriotically and as a symbol of hope. I will always pray that course correction turns fiscal, even if that means tax hikes for reducing debt and surviving the demographic timebomb starting in 2030, we'll see, a blue dog fiscially conservative democrat presdient seems unlikey especially since I think in the minds of many that's what Hillary represented :shock: Most likely we'll see the ball drop on the dem side in 2020. Some anti-establishment democrat culture correct the dem party with a likely win in 2024. The meaningful fiscal shift in the rebuilt republican ~2028. That said, 2020 is far from a trump lock and most of the ideas I am hearing on the mainstream left all but guaranteed to provide the opposite of their intentions: worse environment, higher poverty, worse health, more racism etc. We'll see. I've been wrong before.
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