I have seen a lot of know-it-all democrat voters posting in the last few days about how Trump's economic strategy is bound to fail and those who voted for him for economic reasons are fools. Obviously I am extremely sceptical of these people, as economic literacy has never been a strong point of progressives (not to mention how they are all suddenly experts, like how they were for virus propagation, climate change, etc.).
Nonetheless, I myself am no economist. Can somebody with a better understanding explain the strategy to me, and also any potential ways in which it COULD backfire in the way progressives are suggesting?
I often think about this. I am a staunch nationalist, but I have never lived through the horrific violence of a world war. Both wars appear to have been so traumatising to Europe that they entertained ideas which to us appear completely insane (due to their manifest effects in the modern world). Perhaps, though, when you've lost a good portion of the entire continent's young men to a pointless meatgrinder, the 'peace and love' crowd start sounding a lot more palatable.
I still believe that nations which look out for their own people's interest first and foremost CAN live alongside each other without inevitably coming to blows, but the challenge is finding that balance.