I'm genuinely a bit baffled by Trump's strategy here. His first term it seemed like he almost cared too much about the market and let it dictate policy. This time, he's hitting like 1000 buttons at once knowing damn well how the market would react. I think you might could make a decent economic argument for a measured approach as it relates to tariffs, or slashing government spending/workforce, again, in a thought out and measured way (after spending several months evaluating options). And maybe you do one or the other or both but not also at the same time you have blown up long standing international alliances. He just hitting all these levers at once right after winning the election by making the impossible promise to the mass idiots that he would somehow reverse inflation, lower interest rates but also keep the market and economy at large booming. That was obviously never going to happen. But from a strategy standpoint, is he just trying to blow it all up so he can try to blame it on Biden then take the credit for a recovery 2-3 years from now? I honestly thought the tariff nonsense was always just talk but maybe not. Interesting times.
I'm sure I'll just get a bunch of emotional cloak room responses but curious if anyone has non-emotional "fuck trump" thoughts.