@DCPatriot
No sh*t. So spend MORE? Read up on the First Rule of Holes.
Exactly the opposite is true. The existential threat is big government. Without big government, the Democrats would be powerless. You don't fight big government by making it even bigger, I don't care who you are... And THAT's why the financial books matter. They plainly show the growth of government. Tumpy left a bigger and more powerful government for the Democrats to pick up and run... And that is absolutely going in the exact wrong direction.
The very government that is going after Tumpy is the one he made bigger and more powerful.
There ain't no getting around that.
Not to mention which, Donald Trump is not the cure for any of the existential threats that face the U.S., whether those be financial in nature or otherwise.
Trump got very little of substance accomplished in four years because he cannot plan, cannot strategize, cannot build coalitions, cannot get buy-in from potentially adverse interests, and believes, to all appearances, that he should be able to accomplish whatever he sets his mind to simply because he is owed loyalty from other people.
That didn't accomplish a lot from 2016 to 2020, and it won't accomplish much now.
On top of that, during 2016 to 2020, Trump effectively facilitated a lot of liberal nonsense, like going along with the ridiculous covid spending, a substantial portion of which (at least 10%) was simply stolen by people not entitled to it, not caring about the increased inflation risk that created, and going along with Fauci and the medico-fascists in the government, most likely because Trump is a germophobe.
And the only lame excuse that keeps getting given is Trump's lack of experience. Well, if he is that inexperienced that he cannot get anything accomplished, then he is by definition unfit for office, should not have been elected in 2016, and should not be elected in 2024.
There is absolutely no compelling case for Trump to be the nominee, notiwthstanding his own ego and his rather sizeable cult of personality.