Coronavirus is surging in Florida -- and so is anxiety over Trump's chances with senior voters

[marmar]

St. Petersburg, Florida (CNN)John Dudley, a retired banker, proudly cast his ballot for Donald Trump in 2016, excited at the prospect of sending an entrepreneur to the White House on a pledge to change Washington.

It's a vote he regrets, he said, and a mistake he hopes to correct in November.

"He blew it," Dudley said, not mincing words as he assessed Trump's first term. "We were so excited in the beginning. A businessman to run our country like a business and it hasn't happened."

The searing sentiment of Dudley, 77, illustrates one of the rising worries inside the Trump campaign: losing the senior vote, a reliably Republican constituency for two decades. ......(more)

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/03/politics/florida-senior-voters-trump/index.html

[OAITW r.2.0]

1. Well, Trump does run the country like a business.....his business, not ours.

And his track record for bankrupting businesses was already known before the 2016 election. No shock that he's using the Presidency to feather his nest at our collective expense.

[wcast]

5. +1000

I came on here to say the same thing but you stated it beautifully. 👍

[DavidDvorkin]

2. Dudley started with a ludicrous premise

The disaster followed inevitably from that.

[malaise]

3. Who didn't see this coming?

When you get right down to it life is all we have and no one is willing to die for the lying King, Don the Con and mother's lying boy. The end is nigh!

[Ritabert]

4. Heading for 7th bankruptcy??

The man in this article picked the wrong "businessman" given Trump's track record. Now the US is heading for economic disaster.

[Merlot]

8. I'll bet he thinks another businessman could have done government right.

[PA Democrat]

6. I remember a teacher at one of my kids' schools saying she wished Trump would run

for president because it would be great to have a "successful businessman" in the White House. This was back in 2013. I told her I thought she should check out Trump's record as a businessman because he had filed for bankruptcy six times.

I remain dumbfounded by the people who claim they voted for him because of his supposed business acumen.

[Newest Reality]

7. What?

So, people like that don't look at the reality of business and see why our government should not be "run" that way? This is similar to the ridiculous notion that government budgets and family budgets are similar when they are two very different contexts and worlds.

If you were to look at how even legitimate "businesses" are run and investigate the corporate mindset, it would be easy to see that you would not want to, (and maybe even couldn't) live in a county with a government that functioned in the same way. The people would be incidental. In a sense, the idea of our kind of government, (in its ideal sense) is actually to be a functional oversight to the dirty deals, corruption and destruction that comes from the legal obligation to feed the shareholders and make them nice and fat, no matter what. It is easy to get carried away in a lustful greed fest, winner take all, damn everybody and everything else, or should I say, business as usual?

Add to that a bottom feeder, corrupt, mobster who make a cardboard cutout of himself, insert it into the American mindset (another manufactured product) to cover the fact that he is more of a mobster than a so-called "businessman", and you wouldn't at all be surprised that he would take your country for all he could get and try to destroy whatever gets in his way. A confidence man makes it by playing people like musical instruments and then smashing them if he doesn't like the tune.

[ananda]

9. Reeps are now in the process of looting.

That's all they care about now.

[LizBeth]

10. The fucker has 6 bankruptcies, owes billions and doesn't pay vendors. Are these people mad.

[marybourg]

11. No, Dudley, YOU blew it.