How Trump will Make America Great Again

It’s clear that in spite of boisterous bad behavior, a lack of workable policies and a few very bad ideas, Donald Trump is the odds-on favorite to become the Republican nominee for president of the United States.

(Article by Brenda P. Wenning)

Why? It may be that his theme of “Making America Great Again” is resonating with voters.

While starting trade wars and building a wall to keep out Mexicans would have the opposite impact, American greatness could emerge as the theme of this campaign.

That’s because America’s greatness has faded mightily during President Obama’s administration. Home ownership, median family income and labor force participation has plummeted. Meanwhile, student loan debt, the use of food stamps (aka the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP), federal debt, money printing, health-care costs and—not coincidentally—black inequality have soared.

So voters have latched onto The Donald as the anti-Obama.

Why candidate Trump exists

In fact, former Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, whose own presidential candidacy never gained any traction, noted in The Wall Street Journal that Presidential candidate Trump would not exist if not for President Obama.

“After seven years of the cool, weak and endlessly nuanced ‘no drama Obama,’” he wrote, “voters are looking for a strong leader who speaks in short, declarative sentences. Middle-class incomes are stagnant, and radical Islam is on the march across the Middle East. No wonder voters are responding to someone who promises to make America great again. You can draw a straight line between a president who dismisses domestic terrorist attacks as incidents of workplace violence and a candidate who wants to ban Muslims from entering the country.”

In addition to the economic disasters noted above, we’ve lifted restrictions on Cuba, negotiated an arms deal with Iran that Iran promptly violated, pulled out of Iraq and Afghanistan, and failed to stand up to Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un and virtually every other repressive regime in the world.

As the financial blog ZeroHedge asked, “Can Americans handle four more years of this?”

The question is appropriate, given either frontrunner. Hillary Clinton has been running to the left of President Obama, as if heaping on even more government control over our lives and over the economy were the answer to the problems created by big government.

Meanwhile, as The Wall Street Journal noted, Trump’s protectionist policies would, instead of making America great again, “Make Depressions Great Again.” The Smoot Hawley Tariff Act played a major role in making the Great Depression as great as it was. Trumpian protectionism would have a similar impact. The only thing Donald Trump would likely make greater as president is his personal fortune.

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