DOING SOMETHING FOR THE FEARS AND CONCERNS OF TRUMP'S BASE

Democrats are accused of not catering to the needs and fears of the white male worker.  So what can be done?  This is not so easy as the white male worker abandoned the Democratic Party because they felt too much attention was being paid to women, minorities, and gays (at the same time women, minorities and gays feel that not enough was done for them.).  Jobs were plentiful and wages were increasing but those didn't help Democrats.  Maybe the Democrats will just have to write off these people.  Politics is hard.

One thing many (most?) of Trump''s base dearly wants is The Wall (The Great Wall of Trump)

The president's 2018 budget proposal asks Congress for around $21.6 million per mile to build 74 miles of his wall.*

At this rate, the 74 mi. would cost nearly $1.6 billion ($1.598,400,000).

I’m not sure how far you can see at the Mexican border, but surely 15 mi. should be beyond eyesight.  So maybe you could fund 15 mi. or $325 million with a promise to fund more in the [infinite] future.  Then Trump could have his picture taken in front of the wall .  How much credit would Democrats get for this?  Hard to tell, but maybe to say you voted for the Wall, would yield some benefits.  Perhaps this could be used as a compromise to get DACA passed into law.

What else could be done?  Raising the minimum wage would help, but Democrats already have been for this and it didn't help them.  Free in-state college tuition and community college tuition might help, but Hillary already proposed this and it didn't help.

• Every student should have the option to graduate from a public college or university in their state without taking on any student debt. By 2021, families with income up to $125,000 will pay no tuition at in-state four-year public colleges and universities. And from the beginning, every student from a family making $85,000 a year or less will be able to go to an in-state four-year public college or university without paying tuition.**
• All community colleges will offer free tuition.

     And of course, Democrats offered an infrastructure program as did Trump.  The white workers should have known that their best hope for such a program would be with the Democrats because Republicans haven't been for that type of thing.  Sure enough, infrastructure came in third priority in the Trump programs and probably will never be gotten to it.  An infrastructure program now would generate good wages because of the low unemployment.  The white male worker opted to vote against their economic best interests.

     An analysis of these people is that they love Trump and Republicans for the emotions, not the programs.

Assuming that Donald (The Bully) Trump doesn't screw things up, the economic recovery should continue to expand, slowly if you prefer the term, and maybe even gain some speed.  It is already the 3rd longest recovery of all time.


* http://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/30/donald-trumps-border-wall-a-progress-report.html
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** https://www.hillaryclinton.com/issues/college/