@jeffowski

Ha, more like two...

@jeffowski I don't think it can ever be fixed. There is no way the US will ever go back to anything resembling what it was before Trump. Capitalism is coming to an end, not because of some glorious proletarian revolution but because of resource depletion and ecological breakdown. There won't be any significant economic growth ever again on this planet, and because the global economy is already much bigger than the planet can sustain, it will shrink dramatically at some point within the next ten years, which could easily turn into a complete collapse of capitalism as a whole. And no matter what kind of economic system replaces it, whether some type of socialism or some type of feudalism or something entirely different, the economy won't grow back because the planet is out of growth.
And over the next century or two, the Industrial Age will come to an end, our entire modern civilisation will vanish. Whatever replaces it won't have mass production or automation at a massive scale like today, things will mostly be handmade in small numbers, postindustrial times will begin to resemble preindustrial ones. Life expectancy will sink dramatically, and so will infant and child mortality. Our abilities to sustain complex systems will dwindle as our population numbers go down, as all kinds of catastrophes destroy our agriculture, our infrastructure, and our supply chains. And with "us", I mean all humans living in complex societies. I don't particularly care about the US since I'm not an American; the US is simply one of the first places in the West to collapse.

Trump isn't the disease, he's just a symptom. The disease is economic growth, or rather, the cancer of the economy known as capitalism, which is killing us all. We have exceeded the global ecological growth limits, we're neck deep in overshoot, and collapse is inevitable by now. The only thing we can still change is _how_ the collapse happens, we can still change the trajectory quite a bit. But in order to do that, we need to end the capitalist system much faster than it can die on its own, not try to rescue the economy like we always do when there's a crisis.