The Trump tax cut has completely failed to deliver the promised surge in business investment. But what's driving the economy? An important, underemphasized factor is ... government spending 1/ washingtonpost.com/opinions/happy…
After Republicans took the House in 2010, they forced Obama into years of austerity policies despite high unemployment. As soon as Trump was in, however, all that austerity came to an end (except for poor people) 2/ 
So one reason for decent economic performance under Trump is that the de facto economic sabotage of the Obama years finally came to an end 3/
