Nothing I see yet makes Trump to be the fire breathing monster that they are making him out to be.
If there's anything that worries me a bit is that he seems to think that winning trade deals is going to be good enough to restore prosperity here. Maybe it does, but I think that trade alone won't do it.
Other countries can protect their interests too. What then? War?
You have to innovate your way out of this. You have to be smarter than your competition. The trade part will take care of itself.
For instance, fracking made the US more competitive. This is a foretaste of what we could expect if innovative ways of making energy are ramped up, like molten-salt reactors. American products could have a cost advantage that it isn't available today. Besides, China is developing molten-salt reactors. If America doesn't, there goes a potential advantage right out the window. Molten-salt reactor technology promises to be cheaper than coal. Coal is currently the cheapest.
Windmills and solar panels aren't good enough, nor promise to ever be. To depend on these for the future is folly.
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