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Originally Posted by ScreaminAsian
if hillary were president right now the dow jones would be at 40,000 and every person would have 2 amazing jobs that they love
Probably not, but you are most likely going to lose your status as the world's leading nation to China - which is going to cost you immensely in the long run. The ineptitude of your current administration drips steadily into foreign affairs, and the Chinese already had a superior diplomatic service to begin with - a development which is long since over, since you started selling your top diplomatic positions to the biggest political donors some decades ago.
Nor is it a secret that Russia is gunning for a reversal of the tactics used by the US against Soviet in the 60s and 70s, by slowly isolating you. Again, your administrations ineptitude and also its instability is going to make that easy. They've already outmaneuvered you in the Middle-East. Not that I think the Russian house of cards is going to hold up well, but you'll definitely continue to lose influence.
And you're already losing your friends in historically allied countries. Politicians distance themselves from you and what you're left is mostly the screeching choir on the extreme right, which is just an economic disaster waiting to happen if they ever get power anyway. Not that your allies tell you this of course. They'll speak nicely to you while they discreetly shop for other agreements, and your administration will buy it because your man in charge is a sap for praise. Look for news of your former partners in agreements and pacts to announce new deals, it'll trickle in steadily.
Not that I these issues is going to matter much in US politics. But that's just going to make these issues worse. And the things you're spending 2-3 years on tearing down would take decades to regain, but I think that's hypothetical - as I doubt it will be regained.
However one thing is going to matter, and it's also a thing which makes the new-found US conservative ideals of isolationism somewhat of a pipe-dream. The minute your planned tariffs start to hurt, the US will be hit back with tariffs that target industries in your red states - which costs elections.