I’m the Trump supporter pollsters missed

I’m the guy who never answered the phone when caller ID said: “Number Unavailable.” I don’t want every opinion, every perspective, and every trend to be visible to those who would mold public opinion. I am suspicious that had the power brokers in Washington known what was coming, they’d have found a way to get Hillary Clinton into office. I didn’t want that. I’m fed up. Enough is enough. I want my country back. This is supposed to be a government of the people – not of the banks, lobbyists and foreign donors.

I am one of an endangered species called the American middle class. An aging baby boomer – one of the last generation, it seems, who inherited a future brighter than his parents. I grew up in manufacturing in the Rust Belt, and embraced the application of new technologies for innovation. My career spans more than four decades at companies like John Deere and Boeing and Emerson Electric. I have worked in many jobs from laborer to vice president of operations. I’ve lived and worked all over the world.

I am not an enthusiastic Trump supporter. In fact, Mr. Trump was the very last candidate among the Republicans I wanted to see in this position. He was boorish, inarticulate and ill-informed.