Trump promises long term gains, but those are speculative at best and more likely illusory. He hasn't done the research to really say what the long term effects of his policies will be and nobody else can do the research as he's continually changing his mind. It's nothing but chaos. Trump's not about prosperity, but bending others to his will.
But you don’t know what research has been done, you’re just parroting the media narrative that Trump is pulling policy out of his ass because it confirms your bias.
The chaos is a feature, not a bug. It’s very obviously a key part of the strategy. When you’re negotiating, you want the people on the other side of the table to be on their heels. They need us more than we need them, Trump knows it, they know it.
A lot of the guff you guys have is over what essentially has been bluffing, bluffing becomes useless when it becomes obvious, so there have to be some things that stick for the bluffing to have value in the future.
I think it’s self-evident that he loves this country, and believes that bending others (trade partners, adversaries, government) to his will (reworked trade deals, American jobs, peace, reduced government waste, reduced regulations etc)
is the path to prosperity. I tend to agree.
There are more ways to skin a political cat. I know that a lot of people on the left think the only way this can happen is kid gloves diplomacy, Obama sitting with his legs crossed and fingers laced, talking in measured tones. Or Biden hiding for years and occasionally emerging to kiss everyone’s asses. But that’s exactly how we’ve come to get in the situation we are in now, which requires strong and decisive action, not more pussyfooting around. I get that it’s jarring, it was for me, that’s why I didn’t vote for him the first two times around. But there’s a method to the madness.
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