Whose economic reality? The tech overlords and the liars and thieves running most publicly-traded US companies have done very well for themselves over the past 30 years with ever greater outsourcing, mass immigration at both the top and bottom of the labor market, grotesque growth in monopolies unchecked by government, etc., etc.
Two elections, the first of which had no lasting legal or policy effects, do not indicate any lasting fundamental change is coming.
I only see two ways of making lasting changes. First, the GOP gets off its butt and codifies these changes while it can. This is unlikely as many seem to prefer retiring to enacting Trump's changes, even the most basic like election security and immigration. Second, Trump starts declaring some states and municipalities to be in insurrection against the US, arrests their officials and Dem party apparatus and lustrates all Democrats from voting or holding public office before new elections are held. Trump is too much of Boomer to do this, as it conflicts with his 1960s high-school civics lessons, which applied to a country that no longer exists.
Two elections, the first of which had no lasting legal or policy effects, do not indicate any lasting fundamental change is coming.
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I can’t disagree with what you have written.
However, if more than your average economic recession happens this decade. I believe the incremental changes that are starting to occur will happen at a much faster pace.
Economic events will force a change in policies & the politicians that don’t have foresight will lose to politicians that do.