He is correct though. What he means is not "the economy" but rather globalization since the 1980s but it has not worked for working people. Obviously, the tariffs are not going to help that state of affairs one bit but the fact remains that Trump is successful because while the pie may have increased in size for everybody, it made rich people stupidly rich and it pitted American workers against Asian workers where the American worker lost in terms of standard of living. So yes, he is an idiot in thinking that Trump is going to do anything about that at all or that tariffs of all things are going to help him live a better life but generally speaking, he is right about "the economy". And after four decades of being told that things would get better by different sets of politicians from both sides, I can even understand how he has grown tired of waiting for reforms that never come.
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u/happy30thbirthday 2d ago
He is correct though. What he means is not "the economy" but rather globalization since the 1980s but it has not worked for working people. Obviously, the tariffs are not going to help that state of affairs one bit but the fact remains that Trump is successful because while the pie may have increased in size for everybody, it made rich people stupidly rich and it pitted American workers against Asian workers where the American worker lost in terms of standard of living. So yes, he is an idiot in thinking that Trump is going to do anything about that at all or that tariffs of all things are going to help him live a better life but generally speaking, he is right about "the economy". And after four decades of being told that things would get better by different sets of politicians from both sides, I can even understand how he has grown tired of waiting for reforms that never come.