[Jim Robinson]

Yeah, I know. It’s always best for us peons if we allow politicians and governments to pick the winners and losers among industries. Government of, for and by the elite. Please pass the peas.

[nathanbedford]

I would certainly prefer Donald Trump to pick winners and losers instead of the likes of Barack Obama who will exploit TPP to implement radical leftist domestic policies many of which have little to do with trade or economics. But let us not kid ourselves, if Donald Trump is making these choices it will still be an elitist imposing his values on us except that Donald Trump will tell us that his values are "smarter."

There is no indication that he will come to the people with data and inform the electorate.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Yeah, I know. It’s always best for us peons if we allow politicians and governments to pick the winners and losers among industries. Government of, for and by the elite. Please pass the peas.

That's what Trump has been part of and what he's used to game the system all these years.

It's akin to Willie Sutton telling us he'll "Make Bank Vaults Safe Again."

He's great at marketing and selling his brand.

But what has Trump done to earn the honor of leading Americans, done to gain the trust of the nation or the world, or given him the right to lead from the Bully Pulpit?

He's the poster-boy - the show horse - of buying access; he is not the draft horse who will resort our economy.