I won’t comment or attempt to analyze a Trump economic plan for a simple reason: any announced plan of his would be irrelevant, mere window dressing. Mr. Trump sees everything as a negotiation and his objective is to obtain the best possible outcome from any negotiation. If there are points of contact between the negotiated agreement and his announced plan, fine. If not, the planks of his plan weren’t possible. If you think that’s good, you like it. If you don’t, you don’t.
It would be nice if he would explain his evaluation function to us but I’m quite sure he expects us to trust him which makes me queasy.
Trump has been snubbed his entire life by people who have the capacity to compete on equal ground with him. Banks won’t touch him, the rich women he really covets won’t screw him, and Culture laughs at his crap. That should you tell a lot about his skills as a negotiator. Sure he’s great if it’s someone who has no power and who has to take what he offers, or Atlantic City or a nameless model going nowhere, but he’s godawful anywhere competitive.
Doesn’t this hold true with all of Trump’s “plans”? When they discuss Trump’s presumed foreign policy plans at Lang’s site I find myself befuddled. How do they what his plans really are? He changes them so often when he is interviewed. I don’t think he knows what they are much of the time.
For me the take home here is that when you vote for Trump, you vote for Trump. You aren’t really voting for specific policy, you are voting for the man and hoping he will carry out some kind of policy that is close to what you think he might have said once. That said, Congress and the Senate likely don’t change much. Heaven knows they need to change but that is another topic.
Steve
I think that’s a good, succinct summary.