Just been watching the Ford CEO talk about what is going on.
Lots of mumbo jumbo but no direct credit to Trump, but between the lines you could hear echos of the "Morning in America" claptrap I recall from the late 70s and the 1980 campaign, coming out of the top end then of the C of C, country club Indusrial complex crew.
Right before interest rates went to 18+%, half of our neighbors sold or were foreclosed out and good manufacturing and processing work drooped from the 20s down too 10, often overnight with close downs, re-naming of ownership and scrapping of unions. The stuff BA talks about but somehow manages to blame on ghost liberals who weren't in office, much less have any influence on anything. An element that laid in the weeds during this election, but has slowly but surely come out of the shadows, aka Koch America, since Trumps coattails got us a country club majority back in Congress, not like seen since 1990. And HA! Poor, poor hapless, used like rented mule TeaBaggers. All they'll get is to keep their guns and manger scenes, while being skinned like possums.
Scariest bit is that there isn't much room down. Heck of a paradox in play. The DOW and the investor and even the "401K crowd" ball needs to stay in the air in order for there to be the sort of perpetual motion consumption machine that is required for the lower end of employment to stay on the job, Wages heat up and that all gets very sticky. I'm all for it but then strengthen the safety net and pay for the cost of doing so. But most importantly, ANY effort to serve up supply side gruel will blow out one end or the other, totally undigested.
