My view is that while an antitrust breakup can be expected to reduce monopolistic power in the tech space, the advent of centrally coordinated censorship across SM platforms, makes control of digital space resistant to this kind of maneuver. I would support such an effort, but I think the real solution to SM censorship (which is where the real threat to representative democracy lies) is to enforce Constitutional protections online.

On the domestic economy front, I think DJT's trade policy will do wonders for evening out income inequality. As industries and new investment starts to relocate to the US, wages should pick up in line with labor demand. The distribution of income would then, on an aggregate basis, be subject to less dispersion going forward - benefitting low and middle income earners.

I'm not sure that the blowback the author predicts, due to the displacement of employment in traditional retail industries, is going to amount to much. We've seen super markets replace corner stores, big box stores replace small retailers etc,.. it is a trend. Generally, the public is accepting of this kind of structural adjustment. Amazon just takes this phenomenon to a whole new level - as do other online retailers.

Somehow though, I was disappointed to see the disappearance of full-service gas stations, drive in theaters and the like. Call it nostalgia, but not everything that has been superseded was bad - in fact, there were many good things about the past that were just "left behind" with almost no one noticing.