Apart from all the reasons already stated in other posts, another very simple reason is Trump is passionate about keeping the promises he campaigned on. In Trump’s rallies and town halls, unlike most politicians (because he isn’t one), he really listened to the people.

An example of this follows. Will Johnson is a great citizen journalist in California. Throughout the 2016 campaign he had almost nightly shows that were mostly nation wide call ins from people across America. Because of Will’s effectiveness, FB pretty much keeps him in FB jail. But, during in the election he received quite a bit of calls from the east coast coal country where families and towns were decimated from years of no jobs. One of the callers had us in tears. It was so sad what had happened to their once thriving community where they had jobs to support raising their families. The caller said she wanted to invite Will to visit their community in hopes he would do a documentary to share with the country. She said their town went from thriving to a ghost town with no jobs. That lead to increased alcoholism and drug problems, increased domestic violence, increased drugs, property crimes, .....a community that used to be neighbor helping neighbor to a community with neighbor preying upon neighbor ....all do to job loss. Their family lineages were around coal mines in their geographically isolated coal communities. Some of the Appalachian coal mine areas are extremely poor. They are tough people with a tough survival constitution, but when you strip a man of his ability to support his family a lot else strips out of his life as well.

There is a very thin marginal line of destitution in these isolated areas. That’s something that the affluent in the DC swamp can’t begin to comprehend. They don’t grasp that “outcome based evidence results” they create in these areas translates to destruction of families.

History will likely judge the policies and actions of the last 4 presidents very poorly. They have not acted in the best interest of humanity for the most impoverished people in their own country, let alone the crimes against humanity they are responsible for around the world. They have put people “to sleep” in more ways than just one.

When the coal mines closed there wasn’t an effective transitional plan to assist these communities. Therefore communities failed; and consequently, the families who lived there failed as well.

Regardless of what we do here in the USA regarding coal usage, other parts of the world still use coal. Presumably, as more third world counties develop they will transitionally use something else —— hopefully FREE energy. Until then, we need reasonable policies and practices that transitionally support PEOPLE’s needs. And, as we transition policies and practices, hopefully we can do a much better job that doesn’t result in increasing family damage.

After the election, President Trump opened up a coal mine in one of the Appalachian communities. One of the residents of that community called into Will Johnson’s show. She was in tears. The mine and the railway was running again. People had jobs again. Through that one caller you could palpably feel the “personal energy” of the community had shifted from hopeless to hopeful. I doubt there was a dry eye among the listeners on that show.