That’s the whole trick: if the feedback cycle is long enough, the next person gets blamed for it, not the current.
You would expect the US industry to silently absorb his trade policies and only break decades after he leaves. Somehow, they aren't healthy enough for that.
Everyone has been optimizing to increase profits for decades. A 1950's US economy would have taken a lot longer to collapse.
Exactly: just in time for somebody else to take the blame.
I think, realistically, the limiting factor won't be the politics, it will be his health. He's 80 years old.