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Originally Posted by Mota
It seems like this presidency is going exactly how people feared it would go. This last week in particular seems to have taken a dark turn.
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The second post of this thread, which was from Edward, has a pretty good list of "hopes", which could be turned around into "fears", if you wanted. Or, at any rate, let's analyze:
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- Secure the borders and reform immigration
- Grow the economy & stock market
- Reduce the deficit & stabilize the debt, fix Social Security/Medicare
- Continue building & strengthening alliances in Asia, bring down the temperature in the region (e.g. Taiwan)
- Resolve the Ukrainian & ME wars
- Continue the Abraham accords progress and somehow, help/resolve the Iran issue
- Invest/bring strategic capabilities/assets into the US or allies (e.g. building TSMC plants, rare earth metals, oil etc.). Continue building out EVs & infrastructure
- Resolve the "culture wars"
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1. There's no particular evidence that the borders are more secure than before, despite all the deportation activity. Legal tourism is down and bookings for the future are cratering, though, so that's great. And absolutely zero movement on reforming immigration.
2. Economy is shrinking, anything from another recession to stagflation is now a serious concern for this administration, especially when Powell's term is up. Stock market is OK for now.
3. LOL No, going in the opposite direction.
4. Trump managed to get countries in Asia to strengthen alliances with each other and with China which I'm not sure was the goal.
5. LOL No, going in the opposite direction.
6. LOL No, going in the opposite direction.
7. LOL No, going in the opposite direction.
8. LOL No, going in the opposite direction.
The Trump Administration is a failure for all Americans, save those few who just want to see other people hurt, billionaires, or those heavily invested in the defense industry.