Is Trump's election bad for Trump's businesses?

[CWoods]

How do you have a billionaire as your president. Fucking surreal.

Too right.  I'm still puzzled at how an unethical billionaire with poorly disguised contempt for the working class could successfully portray himself as the hero of the downtrodden and the oppressed.

Boru

A friend just sent me an article that might explain it.  It basically says that working class Americans have contempt for professionals.  They know professionals.  Often they are their bosses.  Some seem like young, just-out-of-college-know-nothings who are their supervisors, always telling them what to do.  So they hate them.  They think people who are college educated think they are superior and lord it over them.  They call Doctors "quacks:, lawyers "sharks."  I was a teacher and occasionally had a hostile parent who made it known that teachers didn't really know anything about children.

On the other hand, most working class people don't know any wealthy people.  So they admire them.  They think they worked hard to get where they are (just like the working class are working to do the best for their own families) and therefore, deserve their admiration.

It kind of makes sense, I guess. 

Here's the article, if you are interested:
 

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Too right.  I'm still puzzled at how an unethical billionaire with poorly disguised contempt for the working class could successfully portray himself as the hero of the downtrodden and the oppressed.

Boru

A friend just sent me an article that might explain it.  It basically says that working class Americans have contempt for professionals.  They know professionals.  Often they are their bosses.  Some seem like young, just-out-of-college-know-nothings who are their supervisors, always telling them what to do.  So they hate them.  They think people who are college educated think they are superior and lord it over them.  They call Doctors "quacks:, lawyers "sharks."  I was a teacher and occasionally had a hostile parent who made it known that teachers didn't really know anything about children.

On the other hand, most working class people don't know any wealthy people.  So they admire them.  They think they worked hard to get where they are (just like the working class are working to do the best for their own families) and therefore, deserve their admiration.

It kind of makes sense, I guess. 

Here's the article, if you are interested:
 https://hbr.org/2016/11/what-so-many-people-dont-get-about-the-u-s-working-class?utm_campaign=harvardbiz&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

I see my link was blocked.  Search for it: "What so many people don't get about the U.S. working class" in the Harvard Business Review.