Disillusioned Trump Voter: ‘I Didn’t Vote For The Policies Of Jared And Ivanka’

With Donald Trump turning more and more to foreign policy and offering no new initiatives on the domestic front, many of his supporters are growing increasingly impatient with the so-called president and now saying they think he’s listening far too much to his son-in-law Jared Kushner and daughter Ivanka.

One of those is Scott McConnell, the founding editor of The American Conservative, who says in an essay he published at Vox. McConnell says one of the main reasons he voted for Trump was because of his non-interventionist rhetoric on the campaign:

“Many of our interventions have had terrible results. We don’t win wars any more; we have increasingly pressing problems at home—evident in such measures as shocking decline in the life spans of working class Americans. I voted for Trump for anti-war reasons. But President Trump’s precipitous military strike on a Syrian airbase makes me and others doubt whether the prudent non-interventionist thoughts he expressed in the campaign mean what we hoped they did.”

That was what made Trump so attractive as a candidate, McConnell continues:

“When Donald Trump announced his candidacy to run for President in 2016, I found myself surprised by how bold and, often, how cogent his foreign policy perspectives seemed. Who would have thought that the political figure who could shift the Republican Party United States towards a more realist foreign policy, recognizing that the most serious threats to American greatness didn’t come primarily from foreign states, would be a New York real estate loudmouth?”

But with the cruise missile strike on Syria, McConnell says he began experiencing buyer’s remorse:

“The missile strike may not mean that much; it may turn out, in a way, fine. It’s not a terrible thing for a realist power to growl and show its fangs from time to time, and America is party to an agreement under which the Assad regime removed its chemical weapons. But it could also signal that Trump’s skepticism about intervention, which rested on the most shallow intellectual foundation to begin with, could evaporate very quickly in the face of rising poll numbers (the American people like their military!) and the pleasures of a strange new respect garnered from the likes of Elliot Abrams and [CNN host] Fareed Zakaria.”

McConnell fears for the future in light of what he’s seen the past few weeks from the alleged head of state:

“I now fear that this presidency could go as badly as George W. Bush’s.

“I certainly didn’t vote for the foreign policy preferences of Jared and Ivanka, or a policy driven by whatever images on TV happened to move the president. The Syrian strike and the administration’s words to justify it significantly weaken the case for believing Trump will actually improve things.”

In other words, McConnell–like millions of other suckers–bought the bullshit, but now he finds that it doesn’t taste very good.

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