[JumpCrisscross]

> When you could no longer compete under the terms you yourself set. You decided to elect a nationalist leader that would flip the table

This is the mistake. This isn’t industrial strategy. It’s part messaging tantrum part pursuit of autarky.

America could have been winning, and in some domains it is, but that doesn’t matter because the political question is how those gains are divided inside America.

> a framing that doesn't let the American public distance themselves from their own elected officials

Nobody is doing that. The point is America is grabbing irrespective of whether it’s winning, and without any particular coherence.