>Trump is a HUGE supporter of Military and by extension military contractors
To really give the military a huge boost, they need more wars. You can't spend much on "defense" without ongoing wars or big threats... it maxes out pretty quickly. How will Trump justify more wars? When Bush ran the 2000 campaign, one of the messages was to get out of foreign wars. If 9/11 hadn't happened, the military industry would have suffered greatly. 9/11 happened, and every war was justified until recently because "terrorists".
Now the best prospects they have are North Korea, which is a joke, and ISIS, which the US and allies have created to defeat Syria. When they finally realize that none of these will fly, they will try to get rid of Trump and take matters to Russia and hence Syria again... which they have been trying since after he won.
>Protectionist policies often Aid US Manufacturing at the expense of Cheap Imports from China
One can't actually implement protectionist policies without being heavily biased towards big industries. If this happens, everyone, including people who side with Trump will cry corruption. There is no way to do it right... and if you think Trump will be able to pull it off from a Republican platform, you are very out of touch. Even if the big players pretend that it is okay (because it doesn't affect them as much), it is definitely not okay because they are forced to price their products up because they are not allowed to do business as they would like to.
To really give the military a huge boost, they need more wars. You can't spend much on "defense" without ongoing wars or big threats... it maxes out pretty quickly. How will Trump justify more wars? When Bush ran the 2000 campaign, one of the messages was to get out of foreign wars. If 9/11 hadn't happened, the military industry would have suffered greatly. 9/11 happened, and every war was justified until recently because "terrorists".
Now the best prospects they have are North Korea, which is a joke, and ISIS, which the US and allies have created to defeat Syria. When they finally realize that none of these will fly, they will try to get rid of Trump and take matters to Russia and hence Syria again... which they have been trying since after he won.
>Protectionist policies often Aid US Manufacturing at the expense of Cheap Imports from China
One can't actually implement protectionist policies without being heavily biased towards big industries. If this happens, everyone, including people who side with Trump will cry corruption. There is no way to do it right... and if you think Trump will be able to pull it off from a Republican platform, you are very out of touch. Even if the big players pretend that it is okay (because it doesn't affect them as much), it is definitely not okay because they are forced to price their products up because they are not allowed to do business as they would like to.