What might Trump do on Trade and Middle-Class Jobs?

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Yes, I think Trump is smart enough to know that the best way to improve the economy is to improve the working conditions of all Americans, so we can be more productive.

Now that he is POTUS-elect--I'm sure his legacy is now more important than how much money he will amass in his lifetime. Nobody remembers how much money you made. People do remember if you were a good or bad president.

I think Trump doesn't listen to people, doesn't learn from his mistakes, even repeated mistakes of the same nature. Which is okay some of the time, but he does it a lot of the time. Frankly, I think the guy's such an egomaniac that he's almost nuts. Only an outside chance of him having a successful presidency.

What I'd suggest to my fellow citizens, act like we don't have a president and do much of the work of citizenship ourselves. For example, right here. We talk up the issue of trade and jobs. We help to educate ourselves and educate others.

Two things we have going in our favor, most of our fellow citizens really believe in transparency, at least most of the time. And there's so little activism and active citizenship that almost anything we do can be a considerable net positive.

I encourage people to work the positive side of the Trump agenda most of the time. Of course, we'll have to play defense some of the time.

If the legal immigrants with H1B visas leave, this will create openings for well educated
Aspies--you may find good jobs despite your social interaction issues--provided you have
an advanced degree or obvious talents. Who knows, if things get bad enough you may get
a full time support person who can do the "activities of daily life" for you while you do the
special stuff you can do. Tom Brady, the football guy, has such an assistant.

There's not much he could do to bring jobs back.

First of all, the jobs that left are generally those that take a great deal of labor. If we brought back that manufacturing, you can bet that it would mostly be done with far higher technology than before. There would be some new jobs, but not many for those who worked in it before because they wouldn't be as ready to deal with the robotics and other technological advancements. Instead of employees doing the manufacturing, it would be employees programming and maintaining robots -- the robots would be doing the manufacturing.

Second, protectionism doesn't work very well. There was apparently a tariff put on tires several years ago that ended up costing the American people nearly a million dollars for every job the tariff saved. It would have been far less expensive to just pay the employees to tear the factory down.

To increase jobs, we have to look at new jobs rather than trying to bring back the old jobs.

So, maybe around 5 Clinton electors saying they'll vote for a moderate Republican. To their credit, putting their money where their mouth is, hoping to possibly pry off enough Trump electors.

Thin outside chance at best.

We citizens are going to have to raise our game. In fact, do what we do here. Find interesting news articles and talk about them. Help to educate ourselves and others. Trade and middle-class jobs are highly important issues, but they're rather boring issues. I guess just come at it from different diagonal directions and hope something chances our interest, and then roll with it?

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