Nobel laureate Paul Krugman notes:
“Still, I was
struck by several recent polls showing Mr. Trump favored over Hillary Clinton
on the question of who can best manage the economy.
This is pretty
remarkable given the incoherence and wild irresponsibility of Mr. Trump’s
policy pronouncements. Granted, most voters probably don’t know anything about
that, in part thanks to substance-free news coverage. But if voters don’t know
anything about Mr. Trump’s policies, why their favorable impression of his
economic management skills?
The answer, I
suspect, is that voters see Mr. Trump as a hugely successful businessman, and
they believe that business success translates into economic expertise. They
are, however, probably wrong about the first, and definitely wrong about the
second: Even genuinely brilliant businesspeople are often clueless about
economic policy.”