01-06-2017, 04:59 PM
Quote:Yes, but the problems Trump was highlighting were largely economic.
Yes, and if he starts plunking away at trade and infrastructure he will be addressing those issues in the way that he claimed he would.
Quote:That may be want you want (me too) but I doubt that Trump’s base would be happy with this if that was all and their negative economic trajectory were unchanged.
Free trade is a pretty basic plank of the US-led order instituted after WWII. So is intervention abroad. If he blows either up, by raising tariffs/abandoning NATO/getting into a geopolitical confrontation that goes badly, that would do it.
Remember, I did say that he doesn't have to be a good president in order to be a transformational one. Once that order is gone, hey, it's gone, and the 1T would just be picking up the pieces in its wake. Which was one of the outcomes outlined in T4T.