Dear Ctl,
I agree with you on Trump. But I do not think the average American wants social programs etc. They just want to make it work. When politicians start cheering for themselves that they passed some program that most of them would not guarantee would work, and then the other party campaigns against it without proving that it will not work, and then cheer themselves on as they repackage the original bill into their own packaging, and back and forth, with the more useful parts of the bill being scuttled to special interest groups, and nobody being sure who the losers and who the winners are, the average American feels more worn out than my run on sentence.
Americans just want clear and simple outlines of what the future holds, so they can plan accordingly. A main reason that needy Americans leave public assistance is because they do not find stability in it. Which leaves it wide open for the career aid recipient. The one thing Americans are fed up with, is the constant trade off of services,equal rights, programs, and taxes, with no clear progress.