Interesting comment from Quora:
I just had dinner tonight with one of Donald's higher profile supporters. It was a business dinner and he is a client of mine, so I won't be naming names here. He spent millions on the Trump campaign and vocally supported him in the press and media. He very much knows my political position, as I know his, so we tend to not discuss our political beliefs, but we connect very well intellectually. His business style is disruptive to say the least, and he truly believes America should punt on having a businessman or an accountant in the Whitehouse instead of a lawmaker or politician.
His desire is a businessman that could outsource the lawmaking-social-policies-arm of the job and concentrate on the harder decisions and budget balancing. I never discuss politics or religion with business partners and clients as a golden rule but tonight he brought up Trump and it felt like he wanted me to play devil’s advocate. I laid down the ground rules of the fact that I don't approve or support a single policy proposal of Donald’s and any discussion on them would be fair game. I had no idea what was coming next. He fears the entire campaign, the millions spent, the press announcements and interviews may have been an unmitigated mistake. I have very good contacts in government and the Democratic Party; he has personal phone numbers for 20 senior people in the Whitehouse. He says, by all accounts, Donald is not the businessman anyone on his team expected: week one he is out of control, his concentration is all off point, his ego is 3 times the size it was the day before inauguration, senior staff are ready to quit. There is no focus at the top and this is filtered through the entire building. This is all just hearsay at this point - supposedly 3 people have already walked out of meetings with the president due to his demeanour. He is being undermined by senior staff.
I imagine any new administration has a hectic period, but supposedly, his is already almost open rebellion. My friend is fringe republican and more libertarian than anything else; his main concern is, instead of outsourcing policies as he hoped, Trump is handing the books to the Republican Party, which, of course, is referring to states’ rights to enact future policies limiting personal freedoms. My friend has stopped actively supporting Trump and I am confident that he will publicly denounce his administration in the future if a single person's rights policy is passed on his watch.
It will take my friend, and a handful more like him, to weaken Trump’s support from its base. He told everyone what they wanted to hear. The high-profile supporters with more money who cry foul will wake up his blue collar supporters.
