"Trump Blame Game, His Personality or His Positions?" By Bill Scher is an article that discusses the possible reasons for Donald Trump’s unpopularity in the polls recently. The many suspected reasons are being thoroughly debated between the two parties. Trump’s explanation is the media misrepresenting his personality to make it seem as though he is an enemy of American civil liberties, but many people think that it’s instead his radical plans, namely the ones regarding immigration. His policies about banning Muslim immigration under the pretense that the majority of them are terrorists and the policies about somehow deporting 11 million untrackable people are starting to wake up the public to the absurdity of many of his campaign promises. This has caused his popularity to drastically decline among all of those that aren’t white males and non college graduate white women, which can also be seen merely by the demographic of his campaign rallies. However, Trump does counter these criticisms by releasing multiple statements on media corruption, attacking them and saying that it’s their fault that people see him in a light that, in actuality, isn’t a correct portrayal of himself. The debate regarding why Trump is down in the polls seems to be prolonged and heavily opinionated, probably never to reach a consensus. This is a crucial article to read if one wishes to understand the current state of Trump’s campaign because it not only provides an overview of how he is doing in the polls, but an analysis of the reasons on why he is doing that way. When one thinks critically about an issue, they must not only answer the ‘what’ of the question, but the ‘why,’ as well. This article not only provides the answer to the ‘why’ question, but it weighs both sides of the argument and gives the audience some availability for free thought. This applies directly to the chapter we are studying in two ways; the first one being that it is centered around free political thinking. As said earlier in this post, Bill Scher addresses both sides of the issue and allows one the ability to formulate their own opinions based on the information they are given, deconstructing one of the main obstacles of political thinking. Secondly, it questions, to some degree, how much Americans actually want to grant citizens liberty and equality. The fact that Trump has risen to the top, even while flaunting his religiously and racially biased campaign plans, just validates the fact that many US citizens don’t know what they want when it comes to many aspects of LIES.
Question: Do Donald Trump’s policy plans violate civil liberties or is he just misunderstood by the majority of the American population as a result of the media embellishing and fabricating ideas (or other factors)? LINK: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/08/22/trump_blame_game_his_personality_or_his_positions_131559.html
Ethan Mitzen: Trump's policies violate civil liberties of both citizens AND non citizens, Obama's deportation force is bad enough especially since many deportation facilities have quotas that they have to fill, but Trump's plans (or more accurately, lack thereof) take the worst parts of Obama's immigration legacy and inflate them. The lack of specifics also leaves a lot of leeway as far as "campaign promises" and other similar expectations of him, he could have a much more extreme or haphazard plans (he could by the same metric have a much more moderate plan, but the more moderate and more extreme ends are both pretty equal in possibility given his unpredictability and tendency to pull 180s and obviously the more extreme positions would impede more heavily on civil liberties). All of this legitimate danger to civil liberties emerges from a SINGLE policy position of Trump's (not that he has many policy positions), which is a red flag on its own.
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