Thread by @bansisharma

1. Infrastructure: The Next Political Battle Royale

We will hear about it in Trump's SoTU address on Tuesday. Already the Media & Democrats are in high dudgeon.

2. Trump will propose leveraging a relatively small amount of Federal spending (~$200 Billion) to invite huge gobs of local/state and, more importantly, private enterprise money to build/refurbish national infrastructure to the tune of $1-2 Trillion.

3. Most notably, Trump will relax/eliminate federal regulations that have perpetually doomed all major infrastructure projects over the last 30 years or longer.

4. It is hard to build any new infrastructure if environmental zealots can coax a lonely salamander to make an appearance to kill or significantly delay a multi-billion dollar infrastructure project, wasting billions of taxpayer dollars.

5. MSM and Democrats will howl "Hunger Games!" at Trump. Why? Because he will make local, state, and private sector players compete for federal dollars and support. We have come to this sorry state in our Media and the Democratic Party wherein any competition is bad.

6. Our superiors in MSM and the Democratic Party would want taxpayers and only taxpayers to foot the whole bill for national infrastructure, because allegedly "profit motive" must never taint anything worthwhile. But the real reason is the statists don't want to cede any control.

7. Level of Democratic support for infrastructure spending is directly proportional to how much taxpayer money is spent on it. When Trump was mentioning trillion dollar spending on infrastructure, Democratic leaders were salivating at the thought of controlling all that spending.

8. Now that Trump wants the taxpayers to foot a much smaller bill to achieve the same result more efficiently and faster, the Democratic leaders' faces are drooping in despair. Soon their teeth will start gnashing, and fire will start coming out of their various orifices.

9. Hunger Games indeed! But of a totally different kind. These are the self-inflicted Hunger Games in which Democratic leaders self-immolate by outdoing each other on making a case for taxpayers footing more of the bill b/c that will prevent private sector from making a profit.

10. The thing is the private sector image under Trump is not what it used to be under Obama. Even Democratic voters are increasingly re-learning that private sector is where most of their jobs and bonuses and wage increases come from.

11. What evidence do I have to think that the tide is turning in favor of the private sector being increasingly viewed as a force for good, not evil, under Trump? Well, for one thing, I don't hear Schumer or Pelosi pooh-poohing "trickle down economics." Coincidence? I think not.

12. Media and Democratic leadership and think tanks still have no idea what they are dealing with. That's because they have no idea how regular private sector executives, those who build, distribute, and sell tangible things run their businesses.

13. In other words, they have never dealt seriously with a CEO like Trump. Sure they have browbeaten, blackmailed, and extorted private sector CEOs many times, but that is not exactly what I call dealing with.

So sit back and enjoy the fireworks about to go off in DC.

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