Channing Ward

Mr. Hawkins
Government
22 August 2016
Trump: Why Is He Supported?
Reason #1
Source: Trump
It is a replay of the worst aspects of high school peer-pressure, about whats OK and what isnt,
based on selfish interests and prejudices.
So lets get right to it. Shifting America back on course requires Donald Trump as the Republican
nominee. Not only is he the only Republican candidate who could win the general election, but
he is the only choice Republican voters should consider (and should consider themselves lucky
to have on their side).
In no particular order, here are the top 20 reasons why:
1. He is not your ordinary politician. Yes, Trump is different. Guess what? Thats a good thing.
His ideas e.g., a sound immigration policy, returning manufacturing jobs to America,
negotiating better trade deals are not at all radical, but do go against the Washington status-quo.
You see, were supposed to select another perfectly malleable politician a Republican not
unlike a Democrat who wont shake things up too much while in office. Same old, same old.
And you, little person, you are supposed to vote for more of the same and like it. But the
American public has reached a tipping point wed rather gouge out our eyes than select another
career politician or Washington insider. Thats just electing the problem to fix the problem.
Hence, this:
Its make or break time and drastic times call for, well, not drastic measures but certainly
something different. America is headed towards demise. If the old adage is that insanity is trying
the same thing time and time again and expecting a different result, why would we nominate the
usual type of politician?
2. Trump is not reliant on donors. This cannot be overstated enough. Not relying on donors
especially not following the Rubio-model of huge support from just a handful of individuals (as a
Gawker piece rightly predicted last year) is crucial. No one will own Trump. Yet the Trumpattacking conservative pundits continue to scoff that he doesnt have the cash to see this
campaign through. This is an astonishing, frightening smear. Why? Because it means we no
longer even bother with the pretense that money doesnt buy an office.
The he doesnt have the big donors/funding-network to go all the way! smirk is precisely why
he should.
3. Yes, he doesnt have much of a filter. Bravo. We keep hearing from the Trump-naysayers
thats Trumps mouth is a problem. But where you see a loudmouth, I see candor. Where you see
a lack of filter, I see transparency. Where you see a man who gaffes, I see a man who is willing
to wipe the cancer of political correctness out of our society. Where you see a loose cannon, I see

a man who says what he means and means what he says. Or, would we rather the typical
Hollywood celebrity or establishment politician (the two are remarkably similar) who runs a
statement by 20 handlers, 10 advisers, and a social-media team before making it? Do we wish to
be led by an individual who does not speak from the heart but rather prefers to be advised on
what to say and when to say it? Do we wish to be led by a politician who waits to see how the
polls emerge on a subject before issuing an opinion? Do you seek a president. or a
ventriloquist puppet whos views who you do not truly know?
4. He speaks for us little people. Hate to break it to ya but we dont have much of a voice. We
have politicians who will throw us meaningless bones, corny platitudes about the American
dream, and make big promises they will never keep. At the end of the day, all do their donors
bidding, and the bidding of Big Business rather than ours. Try speaking up and you will be
flattened. It takes someone powerful, who is beholden to no-one more powerful, to lift up our
concerns. Thank heavens we have someone who understands those concerns and is willing to be
that voice. Consider this online comment:
Stuart Mill
Trump actually discusses the concerns of the middle-class, blue-collar worker. Bringing jobs
back to the American worker is something about which most politicians care little, if at all. Why?
Because nearly all are crony-capitalists, tucked into the pockets of Big Business executives who
want to outsource your job to China. The other GOP contenders will pay lip-service to middleclass concerns but, in reality, its all wink-wink behind closed doors in trade deals that ensure
your job is lost, and immigration policies that ensure your wages remain stagnant and youll face
stiff competition for housing or even a fast-food gig.
5. Make no mistake, there is an establishment plot against him. The establishment really,
really doesnt want him but we really, really do
Reason #2
Source: Supporters:
He calls it a phenomenon, a movement an awakening.
For months, Donald Trump has claimed that his support is much deeper than it appears, deep
enough to win the Republican nomination and perhaps also the presidency. So far, he has been
proven right.
Exit polls from primaries over the past month show his supporters as a mix of men and women
who are mostly white but not exclusively. Their salaries, education levels, religious beliefs and
degree of conservatism run the gamut. Their top worries are terrorism, national security, the
economy and the ballooning national debt. And Trump has won five Southern states, three states
in the Northeast and one in the West, Nevada.
In other words: These arent just Trump voters, these are todays Republicans.
The first few months he was entertaining to me, said Carol Williams, 61, a small-business

owner who lives in Fayetteville, Tenn. I didnt really think he was going to go anywhere I
really didnt in the very beginning and then I said: You know, I really like everything hes
saying. Everything hes saying sounds like me talking.
See who supports Donald Trump.
Trumps following includes an Austin realtor who long supported the Bush family but has
become tired of career politicians, even though shes afraid to share her support of Trump too
loudly. An immigrant from the Philippines, now living in southern Georgia, who thinks Trump is
best poised to shrink the national debt and crack down on illegal immigration. An Oklahoma
veteran who has a long list of visible and hidden injuries from his 23 years in the Navy and who
lost his job in November, forcing him to drop health insurance for his wife and daughter.
And in Saturdays primary in Louisiana, it will include a 40-year-old father who installs security
gates and considers Trump the sort of guy who would come to a backyard crawfish boil with him
and his gun-totin redneck buddies.
[These are the towns that love Donald Trump]
Somehow, Trump manages to be many different things to his followers, often in ways that are
contradictory: Hes a regular guy but also a flamboyant billionaire; a unite and a fighter; a
politician who wont touch social issues and who will appoint Supreme Court justices opposed to
abortion.
But in scores of interviews across the country in recent months, supporters often echoed one
another in describing what they like about Trump: He isnt afraid to say the things they also say,
even if those things are deemed racist, sexist, xenophobic or politically incorrect. Hes a
businessman who will aggressively negotiate for people like them, not big donors. A family man,
a truth-teller, an entertainer and a fearless outsider who is not afraid to attack the media, the
establishment and even the pope.
Hes a regular guy
Im not down with any more politicians we need some common sense in this, said Darrin
Hahn, 45, who is a rough-talking father of a teenage son and who lives east of Baton Rouge. We
bring them into office to do certain things, and theyre not doing it so why the hell am I going
to make em president?
Hahn and his brother-in-law, Matthew Stirling, traveled to Louisianas capital last month for a
Trump rally, and both plan to vote for him in the Saturday primary. They describe Trump as a
guy who knows how to hustle, just like them. Both men wore T-shirts promoting their
businesses: Stirling installs security gates and has seen business increase 15 to 20 percent each
year (People feel pretty damn unsafe, Hahn explains), yet he thinks too much of that money
goes to taxes and health-insurance costs. Hahn is a commercial electrician and service manager
who is constantly looking for jobs.
Trumps most memorable campaign moments so far Embed Share Play Video1:50
Many pundits once said Donald Trump never had a chance. But despite the Republican

frontrunner's politically incorrect comments on Mexicans, Muslims and his closest rivals, his
popularity is soaring. (Reuters)
If I dont go drum up work, then Ive got 11 guys who dont work the next day, so I constantly
have to go, literally, business to business, Hahn said, describing how he saw a parking lot with
defective lights and tracked down the owner. I dont have no bones about talking to the owner. I
will talk to the president of the United States, I dont even care. I will do whatever I have to do.
Trump is the same way, he said.
Hes actually out there and hustled it and built it, Hahn said. Hes a regular guy. He eats
Wendys on his plane.
[Trump lives in the jet set, and hes not afraid to show it]
But Trump owns the jet, a modified Boeing 757. How can they possibly call him a regular guy?
He can come over to my house, and I will boil him crawfish. He can land his plane in the culde-sac, said Sterling, who has two young children and lives in the countryside, where he can
freely shoot his guns. Hes invited to come over to my house whenever he wants.
Im a believer now
Flying to a rally in Georgia this week was Debbie Crowe of Austin, a 55-year-old realtor who
considers Trump the kind of guy she would run into on the golf course, a place where she often
does business.
Hes the only one who can make a change inside the Beltway, said Crowe, who supported
George H.W. Bush as president and his son, George W. Bush, as governor of Texas.
At first, Crowe thought Trump was just a showman. But then she started listening to his answers
in debates and was struck by his quick-thinking and raw honesty. She liked his explanation of his
evolution from being a Democrat to becoming a Republican, from supporting abortion rights to
opposing them.
Im a believer now, she said.
Crowe voted for Trump on Friday, the last day of early voting in Texas. On Monday, she boarded
a plane to southern Georgia to attend a Trump rally with a group of former teachers who are in a
bridge club together and wore matching black T-shirts decorated with their monograms in silver
sparkles.
Admitting that you are a Trump supporter, however, is not always easy. As she waited for her
connecting flight in Atlanta, Crowe started to post an update on Facebook, letting her friends and
acquaintances know she was in the Delta Sky Club, en route to the Trump rally.
And I didnt do it, she said. I paused. I took a breath and then I thought: I should be brave

enough to do this, but on the second hand, man, would I get creamed.
That night, sitting on the other side of the Valdosta, Ga., arena was Eden Dempsey, 66, who
carries a piece of green paper with a question she wants to slip to the candidate: Mr. Trump,
during your first term as president, how much will you reduce our national debt?
Dempsey moved to the United States from the Philippines in 1975, when she was in her 20s and
had just married her American husband. She quickly learned the language, opened a small
restaurant and learned American culture, which included hearing about Trump. She immediately
liked him, and over the years, she noticed they had the same parenting style pushing their
children to work hard and stay out of trouble.
Reason #3
Source: Atlantic
The dozens of replies that I received from across the United States make up the largest collection
Ive encountered of Trump supporters setting forth their thinking in their own words. And having
read through this non-representative sample, I understand the candidates rise better than I did
before. Broadly speaking, the men and women who wrote fall into two categories: Those who
earnestly believe that Trump is the best choice to lead America and those who are motivated by
giddyness at the chaotic spectacle of his success. Of course, anyone polling at the top of a major
party is going to have supporters with all sorts of backgrounds and world views, and while the
correspondence below includes several recurring themes, many of the rationales are singular.
The table of contents has internal links for those who want to jump to a given entry, but dont
rely too heavily on the titles and short excerpts that Ive chosen: Many of the responses
contained so many rationales that summing them up proved impossible. Below the table of
contents you may find all the letters, presented in their full text, in no particular order.

Trump is a Corrective to American Cultures PathologiesThe preeminence of political

correctness among the culture class indicates a momentous shift away from formerly prominent
middle-class cultural values towards something entirely different. Even if Donald Trump were to
accomplish little in his presidency, there is a hope that were he president, he could in some way
alter that prevailing Washington/media culture, and set a new cultural tone.
Trump Knows Its All a JokeMany are right; its not about trusting Trump; it's a collective
middle finger to the establishment Trump isn't stupid, he gets it. He knows the more
outrageous, the better.
Trump Embodies the Rage of the White Middle ClassPoliticians spend no time helping them.
Black lives matter more and illegal immigrants who break the law get a free pass. Evangelicals
in this country no longer feel they have the right to religious freedom and have watched what
they perceive as a sacred institution in marriage gutted. All the while, politicians they voted for
to represent them just plain dont.
Desperate People Cast Desperate VotesWall Street, the banks, and even illegal immigrants

seem to be prospering more than the average American citizen. We are desperate.
Trump Has Successfully Run Large OrganizationsHe leads an enormous, diversified
organization that is worth billions. This requires leadership. Leadership, by the way, is different
from knowledge. When you lead a large organization you set vision, goals and expect results.
You do not know every detail of every level of your organization. You cant. The world is just
too complicated. You delegate and empower. You can get information when you need it and the
president has no shortage of people ready to educate him on issues.
Trump is a Gamble Worth TakingI am of the belief that he is conceited and arrogant enough
to avoid failing in front of the world at all cost.
Trump is Jay GatsbyIs it not better to place your chips on hopes and dreams rather than
certain nightmares? Those of us who buy Trumps vision, nearly to the point of blind trust, are
loudly professing our disgust with the current immoral situations that taint and threaten our
blueprint of the American dream.
Trump is Bizarre ObamaHes got what Obama had in 2007 except he doesnt have the press
adoring him.
Trump is the Picture of American GreatnessThink about John F. Kennedy or Ronald Reagan
inspiring the world with leadership. Think of Babe Ruth, Martin Luther King Jr., Fred Rogers.
The American 20th Century was a great one. Now think about the American headlines of today.
What do you think of? War? Poverty? Political division? Do we see greatness in America still on
a daily basis or even in the movies? The Trump Family is the picture of the American Dream
When Donald Trump says that he wants to make America great again, I believe him.
Trump Will Govern as Steve Jobs ManagedHe will sucker in talent, tell them that their work
is terrible, push them to achieve beyond what they think is possible, and then take credit for their
successes as he tells America, and the world, that their projects are the best thing that has ever
happened. This works. Its not pretty, but it works.
Trump is an Alpha-Male Who Loves America, Unlike ObamaTrump has never lied to me
whereas all of the other Republican politicians (like McConnell & Boehner) have. They dont
fight for my side. Nobody fights for my side. Trump fights. Trump wins. I want an Alpha Male
who is going to take it to the enemy. I am tired of supporting losers.
Trump did build thatONLY TRUMP has ever BUILT any REAL THINGS.
Trump Has Consistently Championed ProtectionismOn the two primary issues as to why Im
supporting Mr. Trump he has remained stunningly consistent.
Trump Put Illegal Immigration Front and CenterWe have horrendous problem with illegal
aliens, sanctuary cities & crimes.
Trump Has the Tiger by the TailThe Tiger is the common working man that is tired of Politics
and Washington continuing to screw us over... We want to give a businessman the chance to
prove that this country can be great again!
Trump is Not RehearsedWhat you see is what you see, all the cards are on the table.
Trumps Nature is to Make the Best Deals PossibleWhile Trump may very well have his own
best interests at heart its ok: his best interest is our best interest and that best interest is our
property values and our economy. When our economy tanks, his property values go DOWN! If
anyone would be interested in saving our country, it would be someone whose salary is directly
tied to the value of the country we call the USA!

Trump is the Lead in a Fabulous MockumentaryId vote for the candidate purely for the
comedic value.
Bush Was a Disaster and Obama Felt Like OneAll a president has to do is not to be a
completely incompetent moron, do a deal here and there, and make sure the most obvious things
get done. It is really, really easy. But we cant get a candidate through the party system that is not
a completely incompetent moron. And no, we dont think Donald Trump is in it to help us. Or
anyone else other than himself. But he has his pride.
Trump is an EgomaniacBecause he is crazy impulsive he has no qualms to step on toes
when he is on a roll, and correctness (neither political or ethical) enters in his objective.
14 Reasons for Supporting TrumpHe oversees 20 thousand employees in multiple business
entities in successful pursuit of 100s of initiatives both domestic and worldwide.
Trump Has Successful SupportersIm a college graduate, I have a Family, I work in an
executive-level management position for a Fortune 500 company and Im a homeowner. What I
think you may find interesting is that I have a circle of friends, both men and women, who have
similar concerns and backgrounds. We are all employed with excellent careers and we all are
supporting Trump for President.
I do not believe that I am a racist, sexist, homophobic, or any other negative label that has been
affixed to Trump supports. Rater, I feel that political correctness has run amok in this country,
and we now live in a society where every blogger and Twitter user is searching for the slightest
offense so they can try to ruin another human (famous, or not). The average person is afraid of
expressing any controversial opinion in a public forum for fear of being "exposed," made viral,
and ruined, personally and/or professionally. It is heartening to see someone as confident and
impervious to criticism as Trump standing up to this ever-present moband winning! People
tend to support the underdog. Most media outlets have attacked Trump with so much vitriol that
they have turned him into a sympathetic figure.
Yes, I really do feel that Donald Trump has the interests of America at heart. He has already
made his money and lived a life of glamour and fame, and another few billion dollars won't have
any real impact on his quality of life. Rather, I genuinely believe that Trump feels the need to
fight for the country he loves. There once was a time when people could actually feel proud to be
Americans, and Trump comes from a generation that experienced that feeling. Now, many are
embarrassed to be associated with this country. Jobs are being outsourced with reckless abandon
and this country is literally being hollowed out. Economic statistics do no justice to this reality,
and the average American knows this to be true.
Trump supporters feel that a confident, strong-willed leader is needed to right the ship and to
fight back against the perpetual decline this country has experienced for the last two-plus
decades. And to be honest, I feel that Trump is our only hope in this next election. This is coming
from someone who voted for Obama in the last election! Anyway, that's my story and the main
reasons why I support Trump. I didn't plan out this response for days or try to make this allinclusive, but this should give you a fair idea of why I, a liberal, support Donald Trump for
president.