My Take | Shell-shocked voters of US allies choose stability over disruption
Rather than left or right-leaning political parties, citizens in Singapore, Australia and Canada chose ‘steady hands’ to navigate geopolitical turbulence
Given Musk’s own highly destructive sackings, downsizing and cancelling of key departments within the US federal government under his Doge, or Department of Government Efficiency, drive for productivity and cost-cuttings, it’s not clear the same cannot be said about him.
Once widely admired as the world’s richest man and a tech visionary, he is now disliked or despised by more than half of Americans, according to numerous polls.
But he is probably not far off the mark about Navarro. If Musk represents the slash-and-burn version of Trump’s domestic policy, Navarro stands for that version of Trump’s foreign trade policy.
Certainly “brain” is not the word that immediately comes to mind when describing arguably the most influential economic adviser within the Trump White House.