@Moon @thendrix @ageha @icedquinn @nep Trump ushered an unprecedented prosperity during his 1st term, just in case your "goldfish voter" memory kicks in. It literally was without equal - the country has set an all time record of length of a growth period between recessions. And he's done it by using protectionism that every expert out there predicted would tank the economy (not only Krugman). As much as I can tell, Trump's protectionism disrupted the worst excesses of the rent-seeking globalism, and thus delivered the goods to the American workers. I would absolutely love a repeat of that, although perhaps conditions had to be right. The debt is now much worse, inflation is much worse.