Donald Trump's Empty Promises Are Catching Up to Him

[jgmiller]

12. Trump (and others) have always had this simplistic view of history

They look back to the time after WW2 when the US economy was roaring and they want to recreate that. Then they look at what was going on back then and figure if they can make it all like that (segregation, not much immigration, etc) then it will all just magically happen. They don't comprehend that you can't turn back the clock. Layer on top of that no income tax and tariffs of the early 20th century and you add in even more stuff they want to do including isolationism.

They are so desperate to recreate this they have decided to do everything at once, layoff 100's of thousands of government employees, raise tarrifs, cut taxes, deport potentially millions of people, isolate the US.

While all of those things are problematic by themself if you do all of them at once you create a perfect receipe for economic collapse.