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I'm not sure that these companies or Americans in general haven't considered the notion that the damage will be permanent. They can punt Trump, but that would do zero to alter the machinery in place that gave him the presidency.
There's about one third or more eligible American voters who will without fail, sit on their asses and not vote. Two Trump regimes won't inspire these ratfucks to vote. The Democrats seem to be doing anything and everything other than tapping into the obvious stuff that AOC and Mamdani campaign on. And about one third of Americans want to be MAGA! forever, like having herpes.
Meanwhile, the rest of the world has to suffer while fucks like Rupert Murdoch and Peter Thiel run their show for them.
Yep, the trade war that trump carried out with China in his first term led to China buying a lot fewer soybeans from the US, instead turning to Brazil (now even more with the second trade war). Since this time his trade war isn't limited to China, many more countries are finding alternatives. It's much harder to gain business than it is to retain it and even harder to regain business when lost.
US corporations were happy to support trump because he'd cut taxes and regulations on them, but that won't outweigh all the business lost internationally. Instead US corporations will be relying on squeezing Americans even harder in an attempt to make up for that lost business. I suppose that's the true meaning of "America first".
This American knows the damage is permanent. Unless we implement some stringent election reforms there’s no longer a guarantee that our president won’t completely reverse course.
I agree the damage is permanent, for much the same reason. A huge chunk of the populace thought Trump was a good idea. Then after that unmitigated parade of disasters, thought he was a good idea a second time, and a third. Those people are not going anywhere, and whatever it is that is causing that catastrophic failure of reasoning, or even self interest, isn't either.