Questions for Trump supporters.

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"Do you dislike him but think he is better than the alternatives?"

I felt Trump to be the best of all Republicans running in 2016.  I viewed Hillary Clinton as the worst Democrat; an entitled legacy, under investigation but unwilling to step aside.  I will say that the 2016 elections represented the worst binary choice in my lifetime.

"Do you like him and his policies?'

For that most part.  He's on board with social conservatism (although he's not a social conservative at heart), and he's right on religious freedom issues.  I watch him closely on foreign policy, but he's largely been true to his campaign promises on this regard.  He's right on trade and he's right on his America First focus.  

"Do you like him but disagree with him on policy issues?"

I agree with him on most policy issues.  As to "Liking" or "Disliking" him, it's a bit complicated.  He's sometimes a real jerk, but other times, his lack of political correctness is refreshing.  

I find Trump's lack of graciousness the least desirable of his qualities.  When someone angers him through criticism, he is petty in ways that make no sense, and he can be outwardly unforgiving of minor things in ways that are befuddling and maddening.  On the other hand, I can't find fault with his relentlessness at which he responds to attacks.  I admire Trump's grit, and the fact that he never gives up.  

[Fuzzy Bear Loves Christian Missionaries]

Do you dislike him but think he is better than the alternatives? I did not support him in the primary's, and I could not bear to have someone as corrupt and liberal as Clinton in the WH after eight years of economic and social policy that hurt my family and the country. I also felt that candidate Trump and now president Trump cared about people like me. No candidate ever talks to me and means it. He meant it. He cut through the fluff and junk politicians spew.

Do you like him and his policies? I think he wants to help America (why else would he sacrifice billions of dollars of his net worth and endure this scorn?) and I believe the campaign caused him to become a better person. 

Do you like him but disagree with him on policy issues? I agree with him on most things.

Out of interest, how did the Obama administration's social policy hurt you and your family?

I can tell you how Obama's economic policies hurt MY family.

For the past six years, my wife and I have supported my adult son and daughter-in-law to the point where we could claim my son on taxes.  My son has had no income, but he has not been able to qualify for Medicaid.  I would be able to qualify him as an adult dependent on my taxes, but doing so would have required me to pay the Obamacare penalty, which would have made me owe, instead of getting a refund.  It was more favorable for me NOT to claim a dependent.

Now don't get me wrong; the failure to expand in Medicaid in Florida is on Rick Scott and the GOP.  Medicaid expansion was a key part of AHCA and the SCOTUS's striking it down, making it voluntary, was a death blow for Obamacare in many ways.  But Obamacare is a tax; if it weren't, it would have been struck down in its entirety by the High Court.   A tax that would have fallen on me if I had declared an adult I supported as a dependent. 

Someone has to pay for Obamacare subsidies.  I get that.  To say that Obamacare was a "progressive" tax is, IMO, less than accurate.