Maybe I’m being wishful, but what if Trump is actually playing a hypermodern version of the old GOP playbook? What if he’s sold them down the river – the uneducated, marginalized, eager-to-punch-Washington-and-elites-in-the-nose, desperate flyover state Whites and wannabes – and just like every other Republican in the past 50 years he’s going to pander to big money and big industry, cut taxes on the rich, and screw everybody else.
That might be better than him actually running the country like a populist demagogue. Personally, I think he has no real, deep-seated ideology. He may not really care about reproductive rights, gay marriage, or marijuana. Yes, he will have to step up policing undocumented workers and act tough on trade policy, but maybe it will all be a show. And he is likely to get bipartisan support for a big infrastructure push, which will benefit just about everybody.
So. Maybe.
Let’s see where we are a few months later.
The real danger is climate change, however. I don’t want to think about that, because it requires a leader who does care about something other than preening in the mirror.
Newt already said how “the wall” was just a device to get the voters out. And that no one ever meant to build it. So, yes, this is plausible.
however, Trump will bankrupt the country in literal and not figurative sense. I can’t believe people forget what he said back in May about “renegotiating” (defaulting) on US treasuries, treating it like Greek debt. The inflation that would result would be terrible for everyone except his real estate friends and people with a lot of debt.
Well, people who trade bonds don’t forget:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-11/bonds-tumble-by-1-trillion-this-week-on-trump-inflation-concern
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