I am a frequent traveller and over the last 3 days, in 3 cities, 3 meetings, came across 3 conservatives amongst my customers & fellow travelers.
Here’s what they feel about Trump & the state of the party
Scene 1:
I am walking off a meeting when the next team arrives into the conference room. My customer ribs one of his colleagues to me as ‘the most conservative person in the office’ and asks him ‘How’s Trump’. His stoic answer — Trump isn’t a conservative. He is a a**h**e. The End
Scene 2:
On my flight back home, my fellow passenger is chatty. He started conversation about his perceived ill-treatment at the hands of the air hostess (i didn’t agree but didn’t state it to him!). One thing led to another & we moved from cloud computing to elections in the blink of an eye. A proud republican & conservative, he said that snakeoil salesmen have more integrity than Trump; In his words, “Trump represents everything that’s wrong in America — gaming the system, white & rich privilege, zero humility. Hell will freeze over before i consider voting for him”
Scene 3:
I have a customer who’s vocal republican and is a good friend. I stopped servicing the cestomer for a while before the account came back to me. He is a GOP leader in the county (i guess) and has a hand-signed Thank you picture from Laura & GW Bush in his office. He chuckled when we talked about Trump over lunch and he said — “Hate sells. Higher hate sells faster. The party deserves Trump because they allowed him to bring his wares & sell it with nary a protest. We didn't kick him when he was peddling lies on Obama and now, he is kicking us. Guess, we deserve it”
The country deserves better than Donald Trump. I like a Democrat in White House. Let’s keep it going...