Can Trumps economic plan work?

[Bengalzona]

Large corporations generally don't identify with individual nations. They haven't for well over a hundred years. The Koch brothers' father constructed oil refineries for Germany and the Soviet Union during WWII. A lot of engines used by Germany in the war were constructed by Ford (in 1952, Ford successfully sued the U.S. government for damages to German factories from bombing).

I could take the "Liberal rhetoric" stance and say that these companies were "evil". But the simple fact is that this is what is done in business. Both of the examples I gave were legal at the time they were done. Corporations go to "where the money is green". Nation states are just tools to be manipulated or obstacles to be avoided or overcome. Trump is a businessman. He knows this. I believe he is about manipulation: using government to enrich certain interests. I would say that that plan will almost assuredly work.

As for as the economics of a nation, however, I don't see that working. I project we will have a few years of wild and free money followed by a severe economic crisis. This is generally how these things have gone in the past.

Apparently, we seem to like that here.