At this point it's not about the current administration, it's about the trend line over 3 administrations. In choosing to do business in the US, I'm introducing a dependency that will last for several years at least.
For my own work I've had a preference for non-US clients for several years now.
The most shocking thing to me personally is that Americans seem to think these developments are new, radical changes to the course of American policies.
I wonder how many of these things would have been possible without all the groundwork laid since 2001 (e.g. the Sept 2001 changes allowing the POTUS to call military strikes without Congress approval, the PATRIOT Act enabling mass surveillance, the ridiculous growth of the TSA security theatre, the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, etc etc). I guess it's easier to just blame the status quo on the elected buffoon than to acknowledge the overall trajectory of US politics.
That's been building for 50 years. Lookup the "Project for a New American Century"... and that's from the nineties.
At the backbone of all of this is the military Industrial complex and security complexes that defeat any sane measure to remove their stranglehold over political discourse.
