I’ve seen some posts today pointing some interesting things. While Trump is terribly racist and fascist, there are white supremacists and Nazis for whom he does not go far enough. There are far-right kooks who think Trump is not far enough right. Some pointed out he is too much of a capitalist to go that far, that in looking out for his bottom line, he avoids too much extremism because he’d start losing money.
On the other hand, he seems to have no financial goal for the country. Constantly flipping tariffs on and off, switching “buckets.” Making propositions that any businessman would know is completely unrealistic. He has no idea how to be a capitalist either, it seems! So is he completely directionless? He just kinda goes wherever feels good to him at the moment? Is he possibly in some kind of cognitive decline, unable to make reasonable decisions, but since his base worships him no one can take the reins from him?
His goal is bringing back manufacturing. He genuinely is pursuing that goal.
The problem is, they don’t know how to do it. They have no plan. And every possible option that exists is either against their ideology or comes with so much pain they’re unwilling to bear it. This is created by the conditions, the Chinese have the winning hand in every conceivable way.
The border shit is going pretty smoothly for them though.
This is what happens when you allow your ideologically driven state to drive all critical thinking out of universities.
They literally don’t have any more ideas because neoliberalism didn’t tolerate other ideas.