Progressive have to many who read scripts and look strong. Then when it comes to answering real issues not so good. Kamala skewered Kavanaugh. And she showed us what she was the 4 years as VP and running for President. Her own staff left within the first year as VP.
I personally never thought Kamala was good enough communicator for President... She just never looked comfortable and her discomfort was projected... She would have been better President but there was better out there...
Thee US system of picking Presidents is gone from stupid to completely nuts... Basically US picks the best salesman, **** if he can do the job, does he sell it well...
In reality , I work with Sales Guys all my life. They make shite administrators, really really bad... Over half the time they drink their own Kool Aid...
Sales is all about message and disconnects itself from reality quite early, it is not about making the best product, it about everyone believing you are selling the best product..
Look at Tariffs, US is a primary a service economy, service jobs(Marketing, Sales, IT, Legal...) are better paid than manufacturing jobs... Work in a manufacturing company and the guys making the product are the lowest paid and least listened too... Why? because that semi skilled jobs are too expensive for the US to do, they will do it if it is highly automated, assembling a product of imported components and/or local skills...
The US manufacturing today is generally at least 2 of the three above before looked at...
Whole idea is just plain stupid... It is trying to win a race you shouldn't want to be in... There is also the cost, China has stopped orders for US food production. The subsidies for farmers will cast multiples of this import tax...
But Trump has sold it. It is not about reality, it is about what and who you sell it too...