The party of ideas and their Dear Leader
by digby
I wondered on twitter earlier what Trump's solution to an economic crisis like 2008 would be. Someone reminded me of this from 2014 before he ran:
“You know what solves it?” Trump said of America’s alleged troubles during a 2014 interview. “When the economy crashes, when the country goes to total hell and everything is a disaster. Then you’ll have a [chuckles], you know, you’ll have riots to go back to where we used to be when we were great.”
He would, of course, blame the Democrats and Obama and the Chinese and Mexicans and Hillary and Rod Rosenstein and that would probably be the extent of his reaction.
But this vague idea that there would be riots in the streets is kind of interesting. I guess he's talking about the people who became his voters?
Update: My twitter feed is full of good possibilities. He would also OBVIOUSLY cut more taxes on the rich, cut spending on all programs that might help people or stimulate the economy,use it a an excuse to crack down on his political enemies, and undoubtedly turn it inot an opportunity for personal looting of he country.
But my personal favorite is ""declare bankruptcy." Because that's just what he does....
