Trump's Boulevard of Broken Dreams

Promises Made, Promises Abandoned

Trump’s campaign in 2016 was full of promises of what he would accomplish if he were to be elected President. A naive (some might say “willfully ignorant”) electorate managed to squeak out an Electoral College victory for him, despite him losing the popular vote to Hillary Clinton by a few million votes.

Now that Trump is running for a third time, it’s worth looking at the broken dreams of his 2016 voters. Trump’s only path to victory in 2024 seems to be to leverage the inequities of the Electoral College system in much the same way that he did in 2016. (Well, that and election interference and threats of violence and illicit campaign contributions and propaganda from foreign governments.) But the road to the White House in 2024 is still festooned with Trump’s unkept 2016 promises.

Let’s take a look at a sampling of those grandiose campaign promises that were the foundation of his 2016 Campaign:

Getting Rid of Obamacare

“Real change begins with immediately repealing and replacing the …