A sad thing about these kinds of economic backfires through incompetent, ideological showboating is that Trump could order them in such a way that they utterly

A sad thing about these kinds of economic backfires through incompetent, ideological showboating is that Trump could order them in such a way that they utterly ruin the domestic economy, cause massive job losses and miseries for his blue collar base, and these people would still continue to support him while swallowing much of his blame game about the cause of the problems being something else even after years of suffering. People tend towards enormous ideological stickiness when admitting mistaken loyalty means feeling stupid for having condoned its excesses. I can't count the number of third world countries where local politicians, in power for decades sometimes, depend on exactly the above rules. They abuse their systems in the same ways, say similar lies to their supporters, and keep winning enough votes to stay in power for years or even decades. The same has been the case of certain democrat and republican party machines in major US cities that went utterly to shit across many election cycles in which the same ideological bases kept winning. It's just a shame that it has to happen at a national level now with similar results brewing.