The people I knew who voted for Trump all did it for one reason alone, to get the US out of these trade deals like NAFTA, TPP, TTIP, TiSA, and the WTO GATS. They were not racists and in fact two of them were not even European-Americans.
They told me that they knew that Hillary meant more, massive job losses. Her (and both US parties) "Global value chains" ideology means that there is no job that stays in the country except for ones Americans are irreplaceable in, which according to neoliberal dogma is a fairly limited sphere of jobs. (For example, in IT read Nicholas Carr's "IT Doesn't "Matter" essay which advocates outsourcing all services that are not central to a company's main product. Due to the embrace of GVCs, all those jobs are likely to become part of the global value chains leaving the millions of US families who are not computer chip designers or rocket scientists - or trade lawyers, with the highest costs of living in the world
but no safety nets and no incomes.) What will they do?
All the other jobs will get farmed out, even when the jobs themselves remain in the country, the people doing them will be global temps, part of a new kind of indentured servitude. heir term of indenture will be 10 years or less, and they will leave with their experience (and Social Security benefits) at the end. They won't be paid decent wages and will be basically a new kind of bonded labor.
A new kind of slavery. The lure of cheap labor is strong and is fueling a lot of dishonesty. Its a lot like the internship issue. Nobody is willing to face the facts. Free labor - whether involuntary or not (the parents of interns basically pay for them to get experience by subsidizing their living expenses for several years while they work for nothing, or close to it) eliminating jobs.
Mode Four (the new indentured servitude) is different, people are tied to s single corporation who basically arranges their visa. They are turned into entitlements and once allowed, canno be ended. Basically turning something that looks a lot like immigration but isn't, into a corporate entitlement, forever. (It will likely have a very negative effect on the kinds of immigration we want, though, basically I see the corporations as stealing it from the people, in order so that the government can end free public higher education and health care and shift those resources to other things like smart bombs. A large number of the high skill jobs will be turned into low wage indentured servitude. Much like internships in that only wealthy people's children (with other sources of income while they work for nothing) can afford to do them.)
It will cause massive job loss in the better paying countries. Unfortunately, its not at all clear Trump is actually against that, as he actually uses these schemes to get cheap labor for his various projects around the world.
(I could have told them that)
He is just pretending to oppose the trade deals, for now.
I am 99% certain its just an act. Both US parties are neoliberals.
This is why people need to become more aware of whats going on in the world (and stop trusting the increasingly captured news media-especially in the US where 6 corporations own most of the news media) .
There is almost no chance of any improvement happening until people realize just how different things are from what the media is telling us is happening. People should make an effort to read the news media from a number of different countries to get different perspectives.
It's all the yanks' fault for electing an idiot.
Not going to bother the EU at all - - also it will be changed back after the 'mid terms' for sure . Smoke n Mirrors.
As for 'tracking' people for heath insurance and other foil hat theories, then simple, get rid of your so called 'smart phone' and don't use faecesbook etc. - or even better - move to country that has REAL health care... ie - practically ANYWHERE in the world apart from the us of 'hey ?'
Seriously, the states are sinking down a drain of their own making. Fart head (trump) is only interested in one thing. Changing anything that obama did. - nothing more at all.
I suppose in the 'bible belt' of latter day money grabbers and TV con artists they would probably ignore 'for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap'.
Sheesh...