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Goal? Get richer.
He will threaten with tariffs to get what he wants. As long as some sort of factory work gets moved to the US, he's going to call it a win. The multinationals will move around factories to maximize profit. They moved certain production out of the US for the same reason.
Prices will go up for manufactured goods because American production costs are high. Americans won't get radicalized. They will just absorb it.
Trump isn't going to fix inequality or cost of living. It's not his objective.
I’m wondering if he’ll crash the USA economy, or just severely damage it.
Severely damage.
My guess is the big crash will probably be caused by a significant event in the financial sector like the 2008 financial crisis. You never know though.
You really don't think that over time even Americans will start to wake up? I know their track record is less than abyssmal but still I would like to hold out some hope
I live in the US and joined a party, but I really don't have much hope. The general mentality I've seen in most USians is that when Trump acts like a despot, they immediately turn to comparing him to socialists. "What are we, a bunch of Asians?!" is unironically how a majority of them act. If capitalists take over government agencies and privatize them, they call it socialism. If capitalism fails and grocery stores run out of food, they call it "communist bread lines". If fascists push for anti-diversity policies and a bloated military, they're equated to the DPRK. As much as I hate to give credit to Orwell, he was very correct about "doublethink".
More and more Americans are being radicalized, but I fear it's not happening fast enough. Maybe I'm being pessimistic, but I think meaningful resistance will be hampered, if not outright betrayed by anticommunist liberals.
Nope, working americans are more likely to throw themselves at yet another war than overthrowing their bourgeois class.
Over time they will wake up and be angry about particular policies but radicalizing implies they would shift a lot further politically. I don't think the majority of Americans will do that.
Us Lemmygradders would have to take far smaller, more realistic steps to build any sort of popular political power in America or anywhere in the West.
I'm in Australia and even collective bargaining from unions generates a lot of resentment when it is powerful enough to disrupt everyday life. e.g. our Sydney train drivers had a big strike recently. There's no solidarity with them from most of the public.