When a handful of wealthy white guys get together to make laws, usually only a handful of wealthy white guys make out alright

Donald Trump’s sideshow trade war with China is a roiling disaster. On Tuesday reports came out that US Steel, the strong-like-ox jingoistic symbol of Trump’s America First policies, was downsizing due to … Trump’s America First policies. And while the trade war tariffs as well as outdated infrastructure are the cause of US Steel’s profit problems, the fact of the matter is that any and every move by Trump and the Republican Party have led to the downsizing of decent American jobs. Whether it has been outrageous tax breaks for the “job creators” or their corporations, deregulated markets, and rolled-back consumer protections, nothing Republicans have done under the current administration has boosted the markets.

Here’s a short list of some of the downsizing, the slowdowns, and the broken promises over the past couple of years of Trump et al: