I regret voting for Trump.

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It depends on the liberal.

I'm a person with "liberal leanings" who absolutely ABHORS PC

No, it depends on if you mean liberal or 'liberal'.

You don't think conservatives like power, too?

I think many people like power, no matter what their political beliefs are.

Most political labels are purposely misleading and a twisting of their actual meaning, most of the self pro-claimed liberals in this country are actually more authoritarian leaning progressives and social democrats with a heavy dosage of identity politics thrown in. There is nothing particularly liberal about these people and political correctness I think is the very antithesis of liberalism, liberalism in the classical sense means the maximum amount of freedom both in the social and economic sense. Right and left are honestly meaningless lazy terms, the whole point of the dichotomy is mind control and because so many people do not think for themselves it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy of conformity as people will try to live up the roles expected of them. Is there only 2 ways of thinking in American politics? Conservative and liberal, right and left? Obviously the answer is no so what purpose is this use of language which we are all guilty of? I believe people need to think for themselves, the should consider their own values and with the perspective of what is personally important to them. Judge others by the merits of what they have said rather than being influenced by personal prejudice, the world as it is does not exist in a vacuum and we can't ignore that but reality and the right now are what is truly important rather than self-destructive rumination about the past. People need to move on and think towards the future as to how it applies to them personally.

I don't really identify with any of these labels, I suppose some would call me right wing or conservative and in some regards I am according to their definitions when it comes to certain issues whereas there other positions & beliefs that would be called libertarian and others yet that might even be seen as far left(Believe it or not I've been called a communist more than a couple times on this website) so I feel like I have developed a fairly synthetic belief system which I have developed over the course of my lifetime. Generalizations are something we're all guilty of but I think we'd mostly all agree that it's best to just try to address argument in front of you rather than the individual(s) themselves, the whole point of this lazy language is to get someone involved to go hey "I identify as X and that's not true therefor what they say has no merit" even when all that bonds them is a meaningless label.

The run up in stock prices means that stock traders expect businesses to earn more money.
This may or may not result in more or better jobs. A big expense for businesses is the cost of its employees.
If one can replace workers with automation, that will cut costs and increase profits. Government regulations can also be a major expense--removing them can also result in bigger and better profits for shareholders.

As I see it, in the new economy, post election, it will be better to be a shareholder than a worker. Unless you are one of the lucky few elite workers needed to run the automation.

I've been called a racist/Zionist/left wing traitor/communist. Some people just need to use labels otherwise they get confused.

So many more regret voting for him because he's reneging his campaign promises and defended Wall Street. You aren't alone. While everyone here is focused on the riots, Trump is making deals that are the exact opposite of what they wanted. He's that charming Devil their mothers warned them about.