Is the Trump regime deliberately crashing the US economy?

Is this stupidity or strategy? It could be either or both.

Trump is telling Americans that they will have to feel pain. For what end?

Whatever you think of the Trump regime, it is certainly a very different animal to 2016. You have Musk slashing the US administrative state and an extremely aggressive and ruthless foreign policy. Whereas the first administration genuinely was chaotic and divided, this one appears to have very little internal dissent. Is the appearance of chaos part of the strategy? Is the creation of chaos part of the strategy.

All the most recent economic crisis have resulted in the wealthiest consolidating their power and wealth even more. An economic crisis can provide the excuse to challenge previously held assumptions and remake things on your own terms. A national emergency, needs the President to take emergency powers, right?

Normally a regime would need someone else to to create a crisis because creating one yourself would normally be discrediting but Trump had long been getting away with blaming other people for everything he does

https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-musk-intentionally-crashing-economy

I'm not backing this theory 100% but it is plausible.

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Elessar · 26-30, M

It's both. The entire premise that you can earn from a crash is founded on the idea that the system you crashed will eventually recover. If the US crashes following their recent abrupt international realignment it'll never get to the point it was until 2024, no dissimilarly than how the Russian Federation never went back to being the USSR. The entire country is built around bring the world's top notch defense partner, nobody sane of mind on this world trusts them to have that role ever again. All those fat military contracts? Bases all over the world? Eurodollar? Those are gone

All the billionaires that back this would arn more by maintaining the status quo, than ruling over the ashes. But as we're seeing, a lot of these folks are going full "Leopards ate MY face!!" as we speak (e.g. the Jack Daniel's CEO now whining because Canada banned his products, after he endorsed Trump lol), so I'm 100% convinced it's not some elaborate 5D chess strategy, just people who have more money than brain cells who can't see past the trimester.

Burnley123 · 41-45, M

@Elessar It is a strategy though. Or at least we can see it as one. It may or may not fail on its own terms but what is happening is an ambitious and cynical power grab.