When I saw the quip, “We are a nation, not a business” my first thought was “sound bite”. I probably should have used terms like quip or comment instead.
One can’t separate business and nation since all of our affairs are performed in a businesslike manner. Even war. Unfortunately what we have are people who do not have our best interests in mind when negotiating our affairs. Our trade deals with the Communist, Iran and violent lawless Mexican border are vivid examples of their handiwork IMO. It all this stands, we eventually fall.
I must agree that our recent Secretaries of State are proven useless as they hate America. A businessman in the WH may not be all things to all people — just as a surgeon needs no bedside manner when he is operating on an anesthetized patient — but what we need for the time being is someone who can straighten out the economy, even if he has to take a knife and hacksaw to it.
Foreign trade and foreign political relations play into economic health. The Donald has experience with both of those things to a degree — more than Obama and Kerry, certainly. Hillary isn’t even in Trump’s league.