Lionel Edriess wrote on Apr 16
th, 2016 at 6:07pm:
If Trump is elected President in the USA, it just might be the signal to push back against the leftist, liberal policies of détente that have crippled the expansion and growth of the progressive, modern, inclusive policies of the moderate right.
That's strange. Bill Clinton brought the US economy back into surplus. George W Bush took the US into deficit through his dumb foreign wars and corporate welfare to the pharmaceutical industry.
The business of Amerika is business. This requires open borders for free trade, which is is exactly what the liberal policies of detente Clinton and George HW Bush brought in were all about. NAFTA, global patent regulation through the WTO, and trade, always trade.
Trump won't be elected president. It's unlikely he'll even get preselected. But if he does, and if US voters are dumb enough to make him president, he would never do what he's saying.
And if he overturned every democratic process and somehow did what he's saying he will do, the US economy would tank.
Globalisation is in the US' interests. It's the US business model. The US does patents, brands and intellectual property. China does the manufacturing. The developed and developing world does the buying.
Tariffs, Mexican walls and encouraging other countries to get nukes are not in Amerika's interests, as every schoolboy knows.
Sleep tight, Lionel.