One Final Reason Why Trump Isn’t “Better For The Economy”

Look…

I know y’all already voted, so it’s too late to change anybody’s mind. If I ever was going to.

But I went to a conference today hosted by an investment fund that is all in on Elon Musk. (Musk was supposed to participate, but didn’t.) But one of his main deputies was there. So she got me started; thinking about everything.

And yeah, I get that:

• Corporations think they’re over-regulated, especially ones that want to shoot rockets into the sky all the time.

And I get that:

• If your only profitable business is electric vehicles you might want to hedge against a President who seems to really like old-school gas guzzlers. And in that case, the best way to protect your business is probably to support him and ingratiate yourself, if possible. Which is an avenue that always seems to be open with Trump, once you’ve got access.

And I even get that:

• The federal government can play a small or large role in the life of a corporation, but ultimately, the corporation — informed by other corporations and the public at large acting independently — is going to decide what it’s going to do, not the government (unless maybe, you’re the media, or you want to shoot rockets into the…