There is work to do. We need a president who can get things done, not dick around with unworkable, unconstitutional ideas that would get us all killed if Congress and the Supreme Court don't spend every waking hour blocking them.
The president can do a lot of harm internationally -- I think that's one reason most of us are worried.
The hidden damage of the Dub**** years is how his cronies turned the federal departments they headed into moneypits dedicated towards wasting money on better buildings/offices/perks rather than their mandate of enforcing government regulation (housing/parks/food/environment/welfare). Obama made some inroads into turning back that clock, but everytime you blame big government excess and become guilty of violating and exacerbating that principle, it erodes the public trust those systems were designed to protect and serve. These corporate assholes really want to tear down the government.
One more thought on this aspect of the Trump phenomenon. Trump has helped me see what an elitist I am. There are a lot of positions on politics that have enjoyed bipartisan support, and indeed the elitists in all 3 branches of government would not even consider they needed re-examination. No other significant politician, for example, would challenge the orthodoxy on nuclear proliferation, or challenge the value of our alliances. That Trump would makes him, imo, a real and true outsider like he says he is. But, that's a terrible thing! I suppose Trump supporters see these structures the way Trump imagines them, as the tools of our oppression. I think that's ridiculous. I think they are the culmination of a lot of hard work by our past Presidents and a constellation of policymakers to make the US as safe and prosperous as possible. Trump shows up with an anti-intellectual attitude and no respect for the strategy and work of his would-be predecessors, and wants to blow out all that thinking and work and relationships because he doesn't know the value of it, and doesn't know how much he doesn't know. If this is what being an outsider really looks like, I don't want any outsiders. I want elites who know what's what to run the show.
Because to Trump's fans he is the embodying persona of American wrestling. That's all they know: testosterone-driven, alpha-male bravado. Trump speaks to them the way they envision their favorite wrestlers would do so as president. He reaches them on a level that no other Republican, and certainly no Democrat, could ever reach. When November rolls around, to them it's going to be the ultimate end-all-be-all cage match with the Soviet flag-waving, job-offshoring, homosexual union supporter known as Hillary Clinton.
Trump is the embodiment of the Republican bogeyman narrative for years; media is evil, scientists are evil, college is overrated, college professors are evil, education doesn't make you smart, Europeans are weak sissy boy socialists, etc. I am willing to guarantee that the Mama from Waterboy is a Trump supporter.
Trump might be the first candidate to what we have been waiting to be done this millenia Unite Dems and Reps. Against him.
Better yet, split Republican party in two, maybe the more rational Republicans will form a new party or join the democrats.
