This assumes everyone who voted for Trump is what the entertainment / media elite propose those 60 million people all are / and all want. No one has firm numbers, but i'd guesstimate less than 10% of people who voted for Trump actually WANT a literal wall. Most see that as divisive, but they wouldn't mind greater border patrolling and limiting the amount of criminal illegals that enter the country.
Despite the narrative, a great deal of people who supported Trump, understand rhetoric, both in business sense, and in election necessity sense. Trump has said, literally from day 1, he is running his campaign and the country like a business. He has never wavered from that.
He made grandiose plans, that non-supporters and supporters all agreed were not feasible or otherwise divisive. Think about ANY contract negotiation, be it between companies, countries, or an individual performer and his employer. "I want 100 million a year." "We'll give you 40 million a year." They agree on 65 million a year. BEFORE he's taken the office we are already seeing Mexico and Canada reacting; changing tune from fighting NAFTA revision to let's talk. We are seeing DEM reps saying there are universally poor parts of ACA; there's room to wiggle, but let's leave the structure in place.
If it feels better for the left to say he's backpedaling - that's fine. To me, a conservative, but not a Trump supporter, i'm already seeing multiple victories on a domestic and foreign scale, and we're 5 days in. He was grandiose, over the top, and scared the hell out of DEMS in the US, and lefty's across the greater world. Assuming the 60 million who voted for him wanted, or expected those over the top goals is a very narrow and naive view. It goes to show the understanding of why people voted the way they did is still lost on a great deal of the electorate and international watchers.
