Hal Niedzviecki, “Donald Trump ushers in the Anti-Future Age“:

It’s not like [Trump] was out garnering votes in small-town Ohio by telling the unemployed that that the virtual Eden perpetually promised by the demi-gods of future is a dangerous chimera that needs to replaced by pragmatic action to replace consumption with community… Trump’s election, like his anti-future campaign, is a rebuttal, but not an answer.

Susan McWilliams, “This Political Theorist Predicted the Rise of Trumpism. His Name Was Hunter S. Thompson.”:

We parents tell our children that when you know you’ve lost an argument or a race, the right thing to do is to be a good sport and to “get ’em next time.” But if there is no next time, or you know that every next time you are going to be in the loser’s lane again, what’s the use of being a good sport? It would make you look even more ignorant, and more like a loser, to pretend like you think you have a chance. The game has been rigged against you. Why not piss on the field before you storm off? Why not stick up your finger at the whole goddamned game?

Therein lies the ethic of total retaliation. The [Hell’s] Angels, rather than gracefully accepting their place as losers in an increasingly technical, intellectual, global, inclusive, progressive American society, stuck up their fingers at the whole enterprise. If you can’t win, you can at least scare the bejeesus out of the guy wearing the medal. You might not beat him, but you can make him pay attention to you. You can haunt him, make him worry that you’re going to steal into his daughter’s bedroom in the darkest night and have your way with her—and that she might actually like it.

New York Times:

A new poll of 2,000 self-identified Trump voters shows a distinct split between supporters of the president-elect and traditional small-government conservatives who have been the mainstay of the Republican Party.

The poll, by Morning Consult and the Glover Park Group, a Washington lobbying firm, seems to confirm that Mr. Trump’s supporters are “big government” conservatives, broadly supporting government spending on programs that they perceive either benefit them, create jobs or pursue policies that they favor. That differs from other conservatives who largely see federal government programs as ineffective and favor lower taxes and moving authority to state and local governments.

Those surveyed:

■ Want to increase spending on immigration enforcement, the military, homeland security, infrastructure and Social Security.

■ Believe spending levels should be maintained for internet and wireless networks, oil and gas exploration, scientific and medical research, environmental protection and conservation, Medicare and Medicaid, education, renewable energy, farm subsidies and, to a smaller degree, health care.

■ Want to decrease spending in only two areas: foreign aid and welfare.

ADDENDUM:

• National Priorities Project, President’s 2016 Budget in Pictures
• Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Policy Basics: Where Do Our Federal Tax Dollars Go?
• boston.com, Trump voters don’t want Trump to get rid of Elizabeth Warren’s consumer agency  (“In a new poll, just 7 percent said they to want to get rid of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.”)