Sunday, July 1, 2018

Losing Harley, Dumping Trump

IN CASE YOU TRUMP SUPPORTERS HADN'T NOTICED, the United States is currently involved in a small trade war, with Canada, Europe, and China, simultaneously, we Americans having chosen to start it, by electing a trade warrior to the presidency. And although its still a small war, a quick look at the participants reveals that this little trade war has the potential to grow much larger, and to lead to traditional, violent warfare, or who knows what. American presidents have historically been impressive war mongers, but this one takes the cake, as it were. To simultaneously antagonize such a vast array of the world's most powerful and influential nations by starting a trade war, is, well, impressive. Soon, but not soon enough, more american people will realize that Trump's recipe for "making America great again" is a complete fraud and a complete disaster, and its getting worse. The good folks who work at Harley Davidson already know all this, having been rudely introduced to it just recently. What percentage of the Harley crowd still supports Trump, do you reckon? probably less than before. Before, almost all Harley fold supported Trump, one would think. He seems to be their type. It would be interesting this year to mingle among America's major motorcycle rallies and do a survey on Trump. These people ride Harleys, they voted for Trump, and surely by now they know that Harley Davidson is being ruthlessly driven out of the country, or rather they are choosing to move operations overseas, because of our exciting new little tariff trade war. Maybe the streets of Sturgis, Daytona, and Fayetteville, Arkansas will be filled with thousands of rough looking black clad bikers, wearing T Shirts which say "Bring Back Harley: Dump Trump". Trump owns the tradw war, and all the consequences of it, particularly economic. its really hard to imagine how the trade war is going to create jobs in America, or enrich the American people, including blue collar working class Trump supporters. But, as Mr.Trump likes to say, we'll wait and see.

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