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Trump appears to be a protectionist. That will be counterproductive to regaining prosperity. There are somêother problems with Trump. That said, he is the only one who can make the moves necessary to regain the Republic. He has the mien of a dictator. The next president, as the current one, will be a dictator because Congress has ceded all of its real power to the President. The USSC has amplified the trend. The next president cannot give that power back to Congress and I would hope he doesn't try. The next Congress will almost surely be Democrat as there is no reason at all for conservatives to vote for Senators and Representatives. They are corrupt going in or they become corrupted totally within hours of being seated.

The new Dictator, if he is to make a real attempt to restore the Republic has to use his Fiat to bypass Congress and the Courts and immediately abolish the Agencies and all their regulations and institute a low t\flat tax with no deduttions or other complications at all

That alone would restore prosperity in a relative flash but would solidify the Dictatorship and make it inevitable that the next Dictar\tor would more true to the Jefe or Caudillo form. He has to persuade, not force, the States to call an Article 5 Convention at which the 17th Amendment must be repealed then the States can proceed further and take back the power the Constitution gave them in the first place. Once that process is complete, he would ideally resign or decline to run again and let the chips fall.

That is ideally. Ideally doesn't happen very often. I am not optimistic but feel that any other than Trump, any other that has appeared by now, cannot or will not do these things. Trump can and may, only may. George Washington is a once-in History man. Reagan and Thatcher come along once in a couple of centuries, maybe. May in the present state of the nation is sufficient for my support. It is all a gamble but there are better slim odds with Trump. At least he has the force of character and the will to carry something like that through. With Cruz as his VP and Palin and Carson as prominent members of his team, maybe, just maybe.