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Trump is Napoleon Bonaparte-lite, where in effect, he arose from the ashes from the stalemate of the two party system to became a one man wrecking team, just like Napoleon when the French Revolution collapsed between the Radical Jacobins and the Directory of those times.
In the year 2016, Trump buried Jeb Bush and his dynasty, the last players of the Cold War, which started the current 20 years of mid east conflicts back in 2001 with seeds planted, even before then.
And during the 2000s, the Democratic party embraced outsourcing and made themselves into a type of Neo-Con-lite, where they advocated "lifting all boats" by sending jobs abroad while pretending to be 'tough on terror'. In effect, they took on a type of left looking but Reagan-esque persona, forgetting that they were once the party of the working class.
And from nowhere, Trump arose from this morass of two parties which looked almost the same, minus abortion and non-Asian minority rights.
What he did was basically say ... "Hey, parties don't matter. What matters is bringing key manufacturing back and bringing the boys back home."
And that's exactly what he did, regardless of his personality. Yes, Trump is Napoleon Bonaparte-lite, where in effect, he arose from the ashes from the stalemate of the two party system to became a one man wrecking team, just like Napoleon when the French Revolution collapsed between the Radical Jacobins and the Directory of those times.
So sure, in reality, a vast majority of jobs will stay abroad due to the 'race to the bottom' mentality of corporate America, however, in terms of work which affects national security and the integrity of the USA, they'll be stateside. No other candidate, prior to 2016, ever spoke about such a priority. And if a certain percent of work stays local, other businesses can grown around them.
And finally, the mideast war.
I'll add my link as I'm tired of repeating myself, again and again, to those who can't figure out at the current 34K troops in the mideast vs total 200K US troops abroad, doesn't mean that we have most of our troops in harms way.
https://patrick.net/post/1329577/2020-01-08-rin-s-real-politik-on-trump-s-war-policy-part-ii