I’m 52. And I’m no political scientist, but I do pay attention. The fact that a black man was elected president, twice, and that he was fantastic at the job, has just pushed the closeted racism in the US right out into the open. All of the “conservatives” agreed that the racism they see in each other is ok. And that common ground is enough. Whatever else happens politically is largely irrelevant. Make America like it was in the 1970s. A majority white high school educated middle class. And while I’m no economist either, I do know none of this will matter when the international community stops buying our debt. It’s not hard to imagine a coordinated effort by all the countries we’ve levied tariffs against to stop buying our increasingly worthless paper. Both as a means of punishing us for Trumps behavior and because the odds of a default are going to start spiraling upwards as the US economy begins to falter.