Trump runs purely off of instinct it seems.
Numbers are a funny thing. I’m not sure others look at them like you and I do.
I worked up a study on job creation. I found a baseline average for the 40 years from 1960 to 2000. I found that jobs grew by 9.75% every four years, and 19.50% every eight (on average).
I found that in Bush’s first term jobs fell by 0.03%. It’s the only time I found negative growth in the prior 60 years. In his second term they grew by 0.89%. Job growth under him was 0.86% in two terms. That’s about 18.64% less than the previous average. In Obama’s first term they grew by a paltry 1% (approx).
Thus, a new interesting and very important paradigm had come into existence. The implications were significant. Right now we’re 40,000,000 jobs under where we should be. We know when it started and how severe a problem it is.
Do you know I have posted those results on the forum four or five times, and have gotten almost no response. I’m talking about less than five people expressing interest.
Those are some very interesting numbers, and nobody gives a hoot even here.
So while you and I love numbers, don’t bet that everyone does.
I think people like core instincts, and Trump seems to have a set of them that people are buying into, because they are Conservative in nature.