What Trump's Supporters Want

There is an article over at NBC News about Donald Trump's supporters. But there is one fascinating part of it:

If you go to a Trump rally and ask people why they support him, what’s the most common answer? You might be surprised.

It isn’t the border wall or his plan to ban Muslims from entering the country or his position on trade, although those come up regularly. It isn’t that he defies “political correctness” or “says what we’re all thinking, but afraid to say,” two phrases that come up often, as well.

Instead, it’s an issue that’s been almost entirely ignored by the Republican Party in recent years: Money in politics.

“He can’t be bought,” Eleanor Crume, 72, said at a South Carolina rally. “He’s not going to be bought by the lobbyists.”

“He can speak his mind because he’s not backed by these donors who say what he can and can’t say,” Travis Klinefelter, a 39-year old Iowa nurse, said.

“He’s not bought and paid for by special interests,” Dominic La Rocca of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida said. “Insurance companies, the banks, they get the law that they want.”

God bless America! They get it, even when they choose the wrong way to deal with the problem. While Trump can't be "bought", that doesn't mean he is the solution to too much money influencing politics. Last time I checked, he isn't proposing any way to remove the influence of money on politics.

He may drive the country off a cliff, but at least he will do it honestly...

P.S. One last tidbit from that article:

Unease with the corrosive influence of campaign donations and super PACs probably wasn’t something GOP leaders expected to influence their primary. Until now, the loosening of campaign finance restrictions after Citizens United and a subsequent flood of hundreds of millions of dollars into conservative causes was widely assumed to be an unmitigated good for the right.

Who made that ignorant assumption? Oh yeah, progressive elitists from the Media thought that. But I guess when you close your eyes to what Democrats do, you might not see all the influence of money on the D's. There is a reason one of Hillary's nicknames is "Hillary Goldman Clinton".