and if they do, what will it look like. His campaign de jour looks like what Jeb would do.
We still have the debates to go.
Trump can turn it around in the debates.
He needs to do well in 2 out of 3 of them.
Not chicken after 1 or 2.
I really don't know what to make of the debates. Trump is isolationist to nuke them now given the time of the day. His "cred" such as it was was on economics. Redoing trade to bring back no skills jobs will not end the middle class drain. There are things wrong with the pacific trade deal, specifically letting quasi-govt entities tell us what our internal tax policies must be. But that is nothing Trump's ever discussed. But Hillary's job training is not much better. We spent something like 7.5 trillion dollars post-9-11 on the 'war on terror," and the mortgage debacle drained something like 2.5 trillion in real dollars from value in the economy. We could elect Jesus Christ, and the economy would still be limping along until we get some handle on spending and deficits ... of course we'd have to kill him too.
Spending has cost deficits and cost benefits, paying members of Congress to do nothing for the past six years has been a cost deficit; repairing our nation's infrastructure will be a cost benefit, as will making job training in local community colleges tuition free.
Taxing every stock and bond transaction .25 cents, no matter the size, will in short order put us back on the road to fiscal sanity, and establishing a modern form of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act will create a work force with 21st Century skills.
Only ideology prevents the Congress from doing the right thing, if the Democrats can get rid of Ryan and McConnell and replace them with pragmatic doers our nation will once again lead the world back to fiscal sanity. Russian and Chinese leaders will continue to enrich their family and friends and Democrats will once again balance the benefits among all Americans in the new bull market;
fiscal conservatism is not fiscally responsible!