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Tibor's avatar

If I were American, my biggest worry would be something like this scenario (speaking of internal politics only):

1. The chainsaw approach only succeeds in creating chaos, doesn't save much money and makes bureaucracy worse, not better (because unless you simplify the laws as well, the bureaucracy stays, you just have fewer bureaucrats to process it all, so things grind to a halt)

2. This and the stupid tariffs lead to worse living conditions - higher prices, possibly a recession

3. This leads to Republicans losing the next election badly

4. Democrats will keep going back to this as a "proof" that you cannot simplify and scale back the government, "modern society is too complex and needs all this bureaucracy" etc.

5. Nobody attempts any serious reforms again, because their opponents will liken them to the second Trump administration. Things return to the slow cancerous growth of government involvement and they are cemented even more.

In a sense, to keep with David's metaphor, Trump ends up being a sort of a bad chemotherapy. It damages the body and while it damages the cancer temporarily, the more resistant bits of it actually spring back and spread all the faster because the body is now weak.

And of course, international politics is another can of worms ...

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Jim in Alaska's avatar

I differ without begging to. I'm quite pleased with what President Trump is doing so far.

Our government, in my opinion, is corrupt and rotten. Frankly I see our many esteemed and appointed leaders as a far greater threat to freedom and the American people than Putin's Russia, China, etc.

Why yes President Trump is a wrecking ball & that's why I voted for him.

I also know what answers I want. I really don't expect I'll get them. None the less any disruption of the corruption is a move in the right direction.

& yes, excellent essay, I quite enjoyed the read, the queries will be interesting look backs throughout the next four years, -or perhaps the next twelve if such pans out.

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