So we’re clear: trump is leveraging his ill-advised trade war to boost approval with his base with a fat bailout. Will the oldest, whitest, ruralest, malest among us be suckered by this? Surely not! It’s so transparent! But yes. Yes they will. Watch the polls. They will not drop below 40% between now and the mid-term, even though a cursory examination of the economics easily shows an overall crushing depression just two years away if trump’s “tax plan” continues unchallenged.