It is not so much that we love Trump, it is that Americans hate what they have witnessed happen to America over the last 20-30 years and Trump pleads our case persuasively The changes, manifested by the adoption of an economic globalization notion, NAFTA is one example, are evident. Young people do not remember when we made computers, televisions and numerous other products, but older people do. There was even a time when greeting cards used to be printed in America. For the most part, Americans past the age of 40 have witnessed economic carnage in American cities. I have direct personal knowledge of some of these events.
For example, I was engaged by cities in Indiana and Michigan. My mission was to provide economic development assistance to the cities where manufacturing companies fled their city to another country, only to export the same products back to America. I saw numerous 200,000 sq. ft. buildings where thousands of workers had been employed, and the cities who sold hundred million dollar bond issues to build the buildings now struggled hopelessly to make the interest payments on unoccupied buildings. It happened gradually almost imperceptibly until the damage was catastrophic. My recommendations were frequently insufficient to solve immediate problems. It was too late for a bandaid.
Trump speaks to a time most of us remember and would like to return to. Can he do it? No one knows, but no other candidate is willing to try and state the case as clearly and forcefully as Trump. If I was a venture capitalist, I would see the writing on the wall and invest in a company to make "fireworks" in America as a sign of genuine independence.
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