Trumpgrets

The Trumpgrets tumblr is fascinating. Of course, most of the appeal is pure schadenfreude, but the reasons people give for their regrets is worth knowing.
Much of it is complaints that Trump isn’t doing what he said he’d do. Duh. What politician ever does that? Most of the time they don’t deliver because their promises were impossible. 

Many of the complaints are that he’s doing the opposite of what they expected. This is different than a politician not doing what they promised. This is about a politician not even trying to deliver on promises–in fact, actively acting against those promises. Trump has indeed flipped 180 on many of his promises and the general spirit of his campaign (complaints include not prosecuting Hillary, filling the cabinet with swamp people, meeting with Romney). Again, though, what did they expect? Trump has a long and public history of renegotiating deals after the fact. What would make anyone think he wouldn’t keep doing that?

Some of the trumpgrets are that he isn’t actually the far-right ideologue he appeared to be. Again, what about a New York billionaire with a short as fuck track record as an ideologue would convince anyone that he had the bona fides to deliver?

I know for a fact that there are thousands, probably millions of Trumpkins who are still stoked as fuck. But, the rest are just fucking rubes played by a giant con. 

You know what they say about confidence schemes: you can’t con an honest man.