"pay for play", which might very well show she accepted money in exchange for political favors for foreign powers. Perhaps that doesn't rise to treason in your mind, but some of those "donations" came from politically connected groups that openly hate the United States.
Do you have the same concerns about pay to play with Trump's businesses being funded by Russian oligarchs and state owned banks? How about his ongoing business deals with China?
Yes, but there is a caveat there also. Clinton has always been a political power broker, that is all she really knows, so the brokering of power is what I would have expected. With Trump, even corrupt business deals further ingrain the US into foreign economies, which tends to discourage military conflicts. This is one of the hidden reasons that Bill Clinton declared China "Most Favored Trade Nation" back in the 90's over the howls of the Republican held house. The rising economic stature of China, with the potential size of their military, could eventually become a real conventional military power. We wouldn't have wanted China's economy to grow to such an extent
without some portion of their new middle class's prosperity tied into the US economy. I view this kind of thing to be a more likely outcome from Trump's likely style of self-interest, another reason I can provide for voting for him. He certainly is a selfish asshole, but sometimes that is exactly the kind of person you want as a president. He is not lying when he says that he will put America first; whether or not you like his idea of America, odds are high that the vast majority of Americans will benefit to some degree. Hell, I already have. My investments are up about 5% since the election, which even I didn't expect. As you have noted, he expressed his perspectives well in
The Art of the Deal, including his intentions to run for office one day. What does the guy that has everything buy himself for Christmas? Power. That is how the world really works, it's always been this way, democracy only makes it a bit more benign. If I can't have whom I
want holding the power (which would be nobody, really) I certainly prefer someone who is less likely to make
my own life more difficult. I'm no racist, but I am a middle aged, straight white male. How long did you guys really think that blaming white males for the world's problems was going to go unnoticed by that electoral demographic? It seems like a large portion of that demographic is tired of hearing about their white privilege from their own kids when they come home from college, that they are likely paying the majority sum of the tuition. If I have benefited from any white privilege, it would be a rounding error among all the hard work, and I have never done anything to contribute to any such social hierarchy; so hearing about such things from the left doesn't endear me towards their position.
