"The Donald does not want to alienate them. huh?"
The Saudis are throwing something like $400 billion our way, which will go right into the economy. Obama doubled the national debt of all prior presidents, over 200 years worth. It's over $20 trillion. As we try and get rid of the deficit, interest rate hikes have increased national debt interest payments hugely, they're up to around $600 billion. Rates had to go up to stop the crazy companies from taking on more debt, but I agree with Trump, they've come too fast.
Trump's job #1 is to get the economy back after the Dems outsourced it, with treasonous intent. The latter I know for a fact, with evidence of the first order -- I personally heard from the horse's mouth! They knew moving mfg out would bring us down.
[Mostly] the Dems moving industry and our expertise out of the country (outsourcing jobs and manufacturing) and Obama's increasing the size of government enormously, including Obamacare, have been taking us down and destroying the middle class. The middle class has been squeezed to the hilt; for example, 75% of adult kids are still living at home.
Want to bet we don't get the 10% tax cut, since the Dems took the House?
The Left sought to take down the US to institute their one world totalitarian order via a red-green axis revolution. But it may happen because of income inequality. This seems to be the word going around, that the elites are trying to destroy the Middle Class. Think France, this could happen to us. This has to be avoided.