I think you're at a point in the USA that anyone pro-Republican is anti-USA, certainly anti-democracy, anti-equality and anti-environment and totally immoral.
The hard working people of this country deserve better. Unfortunately the Democrats have little to offer and in many cases exacerbate many of this country's problems with their plans. I'm not a fan of Trump's rhetoric, nor his character, however he is addressing two issues that will undoubtedly benefit Americans for years. Immigration and trade. We do not need hundreds of thousands of immigrants and the drain they put on our infrastructure and social programs, we need to stop the flow. We need strong trade agreements to compete with the world economy fairly. Addressing both of these issues will raise the prospects for Americans here and address poverty and inequity through better opportunities. Everyone, male, female, white, black, brown, straight, gay, green...
If there was a democrat that took as strong a stance on addressing trade and immigration as Trump, and refused to entertain the idea of conjuring up more social welfare programs (reparations, free college, a 2.5 billion dollar housing "plan," etc.), but instead focused on the actual economy, I'd vote for them.
Well if you are concerned about the economy, and jobs, the way that Trump is trying to deal with it belongs in the 50's and doesn't make sense. The reality is, live in a global economy. Trade and immigration and competition is global. If you just try to turn back the clock and ignore those realities it's like putting your finger in a dike that's about to burst. What any politician, and Americans need to figure out is how to best deal with the reality we live in a global economy and there will be immigration, and how to best prepare, adapt and even take advantage of that reality.
One is by having our education system be good enough to educate and train our youth so our people are competitive enough to get and keep jobs.
Another thing that will help our workforce be competitive, is literally having f-ing healthcare coverage so employees don't miss work or lose their job due to medical issues.
That we push even faster in being competitve on an energy scale by both reducing energy costs and transitioning to sources that will reduce greenhouse gases, even if that means yes, nuclear. I disagree that the Democrats do not help out the "economy" or corporations. A huge number of American companies are global sucesses; our government has never been shy about helping corporations over individuals (either party). But yeah if the government was going to throw money at them, I would rather have the throw money at transitioning to re-training people who are in obsolete jobs, and funding transition to sustainable practices. I don't think it's a partisan issue that we can do this at the same time as having clean air water and not using up all our natural resources or selling to the lowest bidder. I don't think economic growth comes before everything else.
Population growth of the US has slowed. We need young people to consume, pay consumer taxes and also pay into ssn taxes to fund these. The studies I have found is that immigrants actually have lower rates of crime than the US population in general. They put more into the economy than they take out. The one exception is that new immigrants do place higher strain on cities and areas at the border. In this case I think the Federal government should step in to both make the immigration process (whether it is accepting, or denying applications) more streamlined and orderly (less soldiers, more people reviewing and processing paperwork) as well as resources to help the infrastructure and health care costs of those municipalities.
Trump's and Stephen Miller's immigration "plan" does not make sense. He's trying to stop or curtail all immigration (it's not about legal status, or work status, or education/desirability levels, but from how "brown" of a country they come from). Trump also wants to have the power revamp the legal status of people who are already US citizens,. He doesn't even believe that being born in the US means you are a US citizen. He wants to decide who is a citizen and who is not, who can work here and who can't, so he and his WH have control who has rights and who doesn't. It's freaking scary and entirely anti-constitutional. Politically its about making immigrants the bogeyman and create an us vs them mentality, rather than actually helping US workers.
It's not just my opinion. If you want to be economically better-off, vote for a Democratic President.
https://evonomics.com/economists-agree-democratic-presidents-better-making-us-rich-eight-reasons/