We never said anything about the promises being "harmful". It's also not his place to decide what is/isn't harmful, he was elected based on certain premises and promises of certain actions. Of course, he get's to interpret stuff/meaning, but directly not doing the things he promised without a valid reason to explain is quite immoral.
Now if you want to argue that "he has a good reason, we just don't know it" then you're pretty much conceding that your people aren't really running the country a la democracy. It means that they're picking a president on completely imperfect information, and have nothing but promises and character to go by. Heck, they can't even rely on the candidates keeping/breaking their promises.
Positive policy changes - good. No one is saying that he did only bad things or anything, that's not being discussed at all, and neither is his character or how good of a person he is. That's like saying: "Yeah, sure, my husband beats me... But yesterday he said he loved me, and he bought me flowers. I'm sure he beats me for a reason, and I don't know what information he bases my beatings on."
The example is ridiculous, but it shows the irrelevancy of good deeds outweighing the bad, through extreme points.
> It's also not his place to decide what is/isn't harmful, he was elected based on certain premises and promises of certain actions.
It is his place. We elect leaders, not robots. Elected officials are supposed to govern, not just read popularity polls and enact the opinions they see there.
The U.S. is very purposefully and carefully constructed to not be a direct democracy. We are a representative democracy.
"The people" are kept at some distance from the daily decision-making of the government. We have the power to choose leaders, to remove them from power, and to freely express to them what we think they should do. But while in office, our leaders have broad power to use their own judgment and discretion, within the bounds of the law.
This architecture arose from an awareness of the shortcomings of direct democracy. It's not a mistake.
Now if you want to argue that "he has a good reason, we just don't know it" then you're pretty much conceding that your people aren't really running the country a la democracy. It means that they're picking a president on completely imperfect information, and have nothing but promises and character to go by. Heck, they can't even rely on the candidates keeping/breaking their promises.
Positive policy changes - good. No one is saying that he did only bad things or anything, that's not being discussed at all, and neither is his character or how good of a person he is. That's like saying: "Yeah, sure, my husband beats me... But yesterday he said he loved me, and he bought me flowers. I'm sure he beats me for a reason, and I don't know what information he bases my beatings on."
The example is ridiculous, but it shows the irrelevancy of good deeds outweighing the bad, through extreme points.