Trump Created an Economic Sinkhole. He Doesn't Care
Those assumptions were grounded in the idea that Trump, hardly a classic conservative, would still embrace establishment approaches to markets and the economy. Lighter regulation, torrid deal-making and lower taxes were in the cards, and that alone promised better growth than the gangbusters economic performance of the Biden years. Or so the argument went.
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