Let's start with the mandate question. As of earlier this week, Trump was losing the popular vote by 1.7%. (53.5% of those who voted voted for someone else.) In fact, he has a lower percent of the popular vote than all but 7 previous winners. That's certainly not a mandate. (Here's my link for that data: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/11/28/donald-trumps-political-mandate-is-historically-small/?utm_term=.5d5ab7411326)
As for the electoral college, http://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/statements/2016/nov/21/reince-priebus/despite-losing-popular-vote-donald-trump-won-elect/. They say that a picture is worth a thousand words, so please allow me to show you one:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/elections/2016/presidential-election-headquartersSo you believe that the voting results in 20 states should determine what the entire country does? Does this mean that the 30 other states (the majority) do not matter? Certainly does not sound very democratic....
I'll point out that Obama had larger victories both times and lots of folks denied that he had a mandate.So what does that have to do with anything? Enlighten me....
Presidents should set up a blind trust, where they don't know what they own and thus can't make choices to benefit their own businesses.Oh. are you talking about the Clinton Foundation? Is this some kind of law? I really do not know. Or is this one more of your holier-than-thou decrees?
But there's also the various calls with foreign leaders in which Trump apparently asked for favors for his businesses.There's also the event his new DC hotel held for foreign diplomats to encourage them to stay there and use the hotel for events.Was this before or after he became the president elect? Big difference. Before he became the president elect, he was just a business man...
I don't know about you, but I want a president to focus on what's best for the country, not what's best for his business empire, since those may not always coincide.I see no evidence that Trump is going to focus on his business empire. Actually, I see evidence to the contrary. He has already said that running the country is far more important than his business and will require his full attention. We have never had a president with the business holdings of Donald Trump, so we really do not know what must be done to avoid a conflict of interest. Excuse me. Apparently YOU know what must be done to avoid a conflict of interest. Perhaps you should call him and ask to be considered as one of his advisors...
Finally, on conservatism, if you look at the folks he's named so far, they're virtually all from the far right wing. Jeff Sessions, his AG choice is opposed to civil rights and voting rights; oh, and to the IDEA, the law that said kids with special needs are entitled to an appropriate education. Betsy DeVos, his choice for Secretary of Education, has spent decades trying to destroy public schools, which in my view, are one of the key institutions of American democracy. Tom Price, the choice for HHS, voted to overturn a Washington, DC law that prevented employers from firing a woman for using birth control. And every nominee who'd been appointed as of Wednesday and who has a record on the subject, opposed gay rights. (Link for that last: http://nymag.com/thecut/2016/11/so-far-every-member-of-trumps-cabinet-opposes-lgbt-rights.html)ROFL and LOL!!! I expect nothing less from you. You and Victor must be best friends. VBG
HRC lost. She and you (and Victor) should accept that and get on with life. Isn't that what your hero Obama said? Elections have consequences? I am certain that you agreed with that sentiment when HE won the white house....
