As presidential campaigns race to the close, the electorate moves past gauzy themes and adversarial finger-pointing, which tell us little about candidates’ plans, to examine differences in goals and policies.
Previously, we analyzed the paradoxical positions of Donald Trump’s pro-business, laissez-faire, global burden-sharing presumptions—and the realities of the contrasting MAGA-Marxist pronouncements they conceal: record fiscal deficits, interventionist and politically motivated attacks on companies, threats to Fed independence, the dismemberment of global alliances protecting the sovereign security of trade partners, xenophobic immigration bans choking the flow of talent to the U.S. workforce, and protectionist trade practices with soaring inflationary consequences.
