Rob

I don't know what the future holds. But I'm alright with letting Trump taking a look.
So far, "being competitive" has meant losing manufacturing to the 3rd world, and financing a geopolitical competitor's (China) formidable armed forces.
That's working towards a bad ending in my view.

You look at every issue casting Trump into the wrong column first off and then working an argument backwards from there.
The fallacy in that is that Trump can't always be wrong. He is far from perfect, but not all, always wrong.

You tell me that I should subscribe to the views of Rachel Maddow.
The only person on cable news further left of center than her was Joy Reid.

I watched Maddow follow up to Trump's congressional speech. She cast awarding the little kid from Houston honorary Secret Service membership, in the most villainous narrative that she could conjure up. I've seen that kid on local tv multiple times being made an honorary LEO in some jurisdiction. It is always a lovely and charming moment until Rachel Maddow and crew get ahold of it. Her depiction of that was sickening. She is a propaganda machine for a small diminishing niche audience.

I suggest that you try to relax a bit, and let events roll out. And try to be reasonably open to allowing things to be what they are, not to fit a pre-packaged narrative.

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