Everyone with a brain can see the problem: a significant chunk of the Right has constructed its own reality: self-propagandised itself into thinking cultural warrioring is all that matters, and that a few simplistic ideas are all that count in economics, or any field, really. Trump is the pinnacle of such self delusion: look at his absurd self puffery in talking about how his speeches will be highly regarded in future, just like the Gettysburg address got better press over time. In the same speech, I think, he was unable to pronounce "anonymous".
It's become kind of distressing to see it repeated day after day after day: and you can't even see how they think that they are being internally consistent. It takes some pretty strong self brainwashing for pro-Trump conservatives to applaud tax cuts and increased military spending that all objective forecasts say will turn what was an improving deficit situation into a much worse one. But they do.
There seems to be growing concern that economic problems from Turkey, Argentina and (perhaps) China will grow into the next global economic contagion, and who could possibly think that Trump would have any idea who to listen to with respect to a response? Well, of course, pro-Trump conservatives think that a many who has used bankruptcy several times to swing past business mistakes does. Again: the guy has shown repeatedly he doesn't understand the very basics of economics and repeatedly, insiders have explained he is impossible to teach. Yet they think he will save them.
Anyway this is just a bit of a bleg to complain that I get tired of mainstream analysis understanding the problem, but not really having a clue as to how it is going to be overcome. Does anyone have ideas about how it will change?
Sure, the GOP losing control of Congress would help, but will that solve the more the fundamental problem that David Roberts called the tribal epistemology problem?
Because, at the moment, it seems that time is the only answer.
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