Bottom line is Trump should be compromising on Obamacare. Who cares if he promised to repeal it, he should be doing what is right, not what he promised, as with all politicians who backtrack on campaign promises. And what is right is to amend and modify Obamacare. Trump will listen to a lot of smart people and if they tell him to do something different than what he promised and it is the right thing to do, he should just do it.
I agree to this statement, that at the very least he should compromise on the Affordable Care Act. My preference as an outside observer would be that he keep it as is but improve on it into making it a single-payer system. All Americans should have free access to health care like we do in Canada and the rest of the civilized world. The only reason your health care system is the way it is is because of Washington's lobbyists.
I agree that Trump will listen to a lot of smart people, but he'll also be listening to a lot of bad ones. Right now, different factions of the GOP are after Trump's soul. He's extremely vulnerable right now since he realizes he's way over his head and he's currently surrounded by a lot of bad people who want him to pursue their own agenda. He's also surrounded by a a tremendous amount of Washington lobbyists, the same people he threatened to drive out of town when he was running for president.
I'm certain many of the current establishment want the best for their country or believe so. Among them i'm including the likes of Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell, although it's easy to disagree with them. But they'll have to do battle with the extreme right which has been present among Trump's campaign and who were in large part responsible for his election win. These radicals have been at odds with the GOP establishment for years and they'll be battling them for control of the president's ideology.
Trump is in a bad position. Part of me wishes he succeeds as a president, but for me it would mean he fucks a lot of folks who voted for him with all the false and impossible promises he made. He was an anti-establishment candidate and now he's surrounded by DC lobbyists and many long-time Washington insiders are on his short list for key cabinet positions.
Donald Trump will feel like a prisoner in this job. So will his family. They're the last family i'd expect to be comfortable living in the White House and having the secret service follow you everywhere and dictating your schedule. Trump will also lose many privileges he's grown accustomed to, like the use of his personal cellphone, for example. This is why i wouldn't be surprised to see him give up the job within two years or at the very least he won't see re-election. Will he want to go through another grueling campaign four years from now when he'll be 74 years old?? And the fact he's currently involved with 72 different lawsuits (and counting) won't exactly help his focus. The next few years should be very interesting in Washington and believe it or not, part of me is actually pulling for Trump. I'm wishing he's able to stand up to the alt-right's ideology and to the Washington establishment. If he manages to get the lobbyists out of Washington, shorten congressmen's terms and get the money out of politics, i'm all for that. He was absolutely right on those issues, although i find it'll be nearly impossible to do since the odds are greatly stacked against him by his own party. And if he's able to pull off building the wall? Kudos to him, although it looks impossible and we'll all be dead by the time it's completed.
Like President Obama said the other day, if President-elect Trump succeeds as a president, it means that America will succeed. But beware: succeeding as a president doesn't mean he'll have succeeded in implenting his country-dividing radical promises he promised during the campaign. For Donald Trump to succeed as a president, it'll mean that he will have broken many pre-election promises he made to the people who believed in him and voted for him. I'm sure many of those same voters believed every word when he said he'd blow-up Washington. Well, considering he's already surrounded by dozens of lobbyists and dozens of long-time Washington insiders & neo-cons will hold key cabinet positions, i'd say he's off to a bad start. Or is it?
p.s. I'm not so sure kicking out Chris Christie of his circle is a good idea. Christie is a very smart man & understands Washington politics. Plus the fact Christie was the first one to go and support him.
