[TheRealThing]

Isn't politicians listening to these quote, unquote reputable economists the reason why we are in this mess right now.

Who determines which one is reputable when one says the exact opposite of the other? Yet both are reputable ?

It's kinda the same thing as reading the cliché "while scientists once thought" statement. Subtle way of saying they didn't know what they were talking about in the first place.

All of the "reputable pollsters" said, Hillary in a landslide, too.

In a very general sense, there are two kinds of people in this country Bob. They are the ones who're either in power or have been in power, which would include everybody from Bush and Rove, to Obama, Clinton, Holder and Jarrett, to The Tax Foundation, to Gary Cohn and the hundreds of radio and TV naysayers. Most of these guys think they know it all. And then there are the rest of America who just live and work here. And of course vote.

Only ideologues with an ax to grind or the ones who have been in power take offense at the efforts of the President. Most of the establishment take exception to being corrected and reproved by Trump, and they therefore hope he will fail. Like at work when somebody gets promoted around people who've been there longer, even much longer. And the contempt is thick enough to cut with a knife. They will not help their new boss in any way or for any reason. In fact they lie in wait to seize upon every perceived misstep and departure from the norm, as an opportunity to slam him as incompetent.

On the national scale however, those lying in wait are taking proactive measures to unseat Trump by means of DOJ witch hunts, committee witch hunts, and a propaganda campaign put on by the political establishment and the media that would make even Joseph Stalin blush.