I am not out of hand dismissing your answer.
The scenario you outlined has been with us for, well, forever.
The last few decades have illustrated the old ‘in-the-box’ strategies no longer work. Our commerce world has grown very quickly.
The illustration that Trump uses often, Caterpillar and Komatsu heavy equipment, is a real life situation of how the Japanese can outsell us with inferior product, even on Caterpillars home turf.
Tens of thousands of jobs lost, investors move elsewhere.
will the idea that we need to negotiate a more fair trade agreement with our foreign competitors sell?
To those out-of-work skilled machinists?
Currency manipulation is going to be a big part of the fix.
Out-of-the-box thinking on Trumps part is that it will sell, and work.
As you pointed out, it’s new thinking.
Yes, yes, I know it’s been bandied about for a long time by the professor types, and everyone has said it’s not workable.
The same guys said Trump wouldn’t submit his financials.
But there they were, on time.
So much for credibility.
This is going to work too.