User blog comment:TheShadowAssassin/Donald Trump's brilliant plan to take the White House/@comment-4257955-20161116213510

Super late, but this was a good read, thanks Apple. If you want to avoid my unneeded opinion, stop reading now, lol.

I'm ardently anti-Trump (and actually over my disappointment) but I can absolutely see why he won, and expected an eventual toppling of the "establishment" at the top of our politics. I didn't think he could pull it out after seemingly alienating swaths of people, but I was proven wrong. Still, he lost the popular vote, and as Loney pointed out, our embarassingly low voter turnout showed the general opinion of the nation as one of complacency and indifference toward two divisive and scummy candidates. He didn't start a "revolution," but tapped into pent-up frustration from enough disaffected workers in key states.

And if you'll notice, he's already walked back a few of his absolutes and promises. He tapped Priebus, a political insider, as Chief of Staff. Draining the swamp? And his indication that he wants to keep some parts of Obamacare isn't really "repealing and replacing." Not sure if this is merely pre-inaugaration rhetoric to assuage his critics, or the mellowing out of what was supposed to be a contrarian and firebrand presidency. Regardless, this is what every elected official does anyway. Is he already turning into one of those goshdarned politicans? We'll see. I'm honestly more afraid of Mike Pence and his loony tendrils wrapping around Trump and a Republican-dominated Congress, but that's another story.