I'm definitely not a Trump supporter, I'm a critic.
I'd suggest there are quite a few Trump supporters, about 15% to 20% of those who voted for him, who would continue to support Trump NO MATTER what he did..literally... He could steal their money, molest their women & shoot their dog ..and they'd deny his guilt, deny his crimes & still support him ( I can imagine their excuses..he's invested our money, she asked for it & I never liked that dog anyways ..welcome to dumbnut county )

Remember even Bush had 29% support even after two disastrous wars, failing to prevent the most serious attack on Us soil, and plunged the US into the worst depression since 1929. That is probably a good measure of the number of Republucan dead enders. Then there is a chunk who won't turn on Trump because no matter what he does they won't believe it. We could find emails from Putin ordering Trump do destroy the US and have the Golden Showers sex tape released and have Trump launch nukes against Minneapolis and the Breitbart/Inforwars crowd would think it is fake. Frankly, we have seen based on the prisoner experiment and authoritarian regimes that a portion of any population is quite capable of brainwashing themselves at every step even to the point of stuffing 12 million people into gas ovens. This phenomenon of hyper allegiance trumping reality and decency is sadly a very well understood aspect of human psychology.

@Ogion

Bush wasn't responsible for the recession

that was Reagan

The Moral Majority and pro-life voters have been a Republican thing for 40+ years. You can't reason with them.

Reagan was dead in the 2008- Recession...

Dammit Jeff, you're sounding kind of liberal. That's off limits for you, or your team might get nervous!

@brainbomb

yes but he lead the OVER de-regulation of banking, than let the subprime mortgage market build up after more conventional loans had run out. although... i suppose you could blame both Bushs and Clinton too, but Reagan dropped the ball first

ITT: people who don't support trump.

What would convince you not to vote for him again?
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“War would be unforgivable.”

“If the Russia thing were true, I’d turn against him. Why don’t y’all focus on that instead of his tweets?”

“Give us a better option, and we’ll be happy. But it needs to be a moderate—Sanders won’t win.”

“I’ll happily vote for someone else. There’s a lot I hate about Trump. But our lives are basically destroyed, and he was the first person to talk about fixing that.”

“Generally hard to say. Extreme corruption would do it.”
(Second person in the same conversation: “I don’t care if he’s corrupt. Y’all voted for Hillary and she was the most corrupt candidate of all time.”)

“Another worry is an escalation of overreaches between him and the left that culminates in the breakdown of our system of law. I'd hold him responsible for that.”

“If he were to get the US involved in a major military conflict (I think the odds of this have actually decreased versus Hillary, but I'm willing to be proven wrong). If he were to substantially increase the cost of doing business (by increasing regulation or taxes for instance).”

“I'm socially very liberal. If he were to do something like restart a war on drugs, try to restrict rights of LGBT, or make first trimester abortions difficult or dangerous, I'd rethink my position. I think these type of things are extremely unlikely though, especially with an election a few years away the country as a whole becoming more socially liberal.”

“I think if 2008 happened again (further into Trump's tenure, so that causation can be shown, hypothetically), the base would evaporate.”

“Based on Trump's history before politics I don't believe he is racist, sexist, homophobic or bigoted. If that were true it would supersede everything else since it would be even worse for individual liberty and freedom than any freedom of speech restrictions or increases in government size proposed by the Democratic Party.”
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http://blog.samaltman.com/what-i-heard-from-trump-supporters

I know being on-topic is unfashionable around here, but hey.

@MajorMitchell, @Ogion, and @JeffKuta: please stop. Pretty please, with sugar on top.

Stop what?

I voted for Trump and still support him 100%

ND: yes, I know that, but what actions on his part would lead you to stop supporting him?

Ogion: Stop talking about Trump supporters on this thread. This thread is for listening to Trump supporters, not talking about them.

I asked you not to tell Trump supporters why they were wrong. It honestly didn't occur to me that you would jump in to remind us that Trump supporters were wrong before any of them had actually posted.

Never used the word Trump. It's true the Moral Majority and pro-life single issue voters have flocked to the Republican Party. You cannot reason with single issue voters whose sens of moral duty compels them to do one single thing in the voting booth.

I didn't tell Trump supporters they were wrong. I told you why the answer to your question is for the most part: "nothing"

@Pastoralan: If he betrays the promises he made to the American people.

Are any of those promises particularly important, or is this wholly a matter of keeping promises on general principle?

Also, what sort of actions would constitute betrayal, in your eyes?

@ND: as far as I can tell, he's already betrayed a number of those promises. So I'm looking for specifics. What would he actually, concretely, have to do to lose your support?

ND, if Trump colluded with the Russians, does that count as a betrayal of his promises to the American people? Technically, he never promised NOT to collude. What is your take?

Haha the dogpile

This time it was mostly that everyone posted at the same time but let's try not to treat this inquiry as a cross-examination? plskthx

WOULD ALL THE LIBERALS PLEASE SHUT UP? THANK YOU!

*in lawn chair, eating popcorn*

no no. i was just having fun

@pastoralan: what ND said.

Although Trump only has my support because the alternative is so appalling.

It's very very simple. A vote for the Republicans is for good.
A vote for Democrats is for degeneracy and disaster.

A serious question for @ND and @fielder, what policy reasons did you support Trump over Gary Johnson for? was it purely the capacity for him to win, or were there things that Trump said that won you over for him?

@Pastoralan: I don't know of any promises he has betrayed. He has only been in office for a month and a half. If he has one that you think he has betrayed please let me know.

@Hauta: Trump never colluded with the Russians. Unless you have concrete proof that Trump himself colluded then you have nothing.

@James: Gary Johnson was Hillary Clinton Lite. He betrayed the Libertarian Party and hopefully they run an actual libertarian next time.