adding in the aboslute disaster of our domestic policy, and it all added up to not being a good deal. between regulations, inflation, red tape, overzealous unions, and probably more things than we can count, including minimum wages etc, it all is plain to see how we got here. I think simply adjusting the "trade imbalance" is a huge gap closer, but there is harsh medicine that has to be swallowed at home too. I'm afraid the public won't accept it, it isn't a winning position or very popular since the narrative has been shifted so heavily into the hands of leftist (socialist) dogma. Conservatives aren't actually defending their values, but defending the leftist critiqued versions.

I do have a positive outlook for us, through thick and thin