Americans leaving due to Trump policies could harm economy

We’re seeing Americans leaving the country in record numbers and looking into leaving the country in record numbers under Donald Trump. You know, I remember when George W Bush was running for reelection in 2004 and many on the political left did the I’m gonna move to Canada. Stuff. If bush gets reelected, I’m going to move to Canada. And of course, in general, when people say that, that’s what they’re going to do, they’re not really going to do it. One reason is it’s actually quite difficult to move to Canada. But also, people’s lives are rooted in a certain place, language, certainly culture, certainly, most people’s family and friends are a certain number of miles from the place in which they grew up or have recently lived unemployment. So moving is actually a really big deal. And in fact, part of this informs, I believe, the way we should see immigrants to the United States in a different light, given what it means to move from one country to another. I did it when I was five, and I did not speak a word of English, and it was extraordinarily difficult and traumatic in many ways, and that was without other sorts of instability that can come with moving. So that gets us to right now, where we are seeing 50% increase in American citizens looking to move to Ireland and obtain citizenship by descent. We’re seeing the consulting companies that help Americans get a passport or residency abroad say we are seeing a massive, massive influx here, and I’m sure you can guess that the reason for this is Donald Trump’s administration. Now it’s not as simple as the I’ll move to Canada stuff from 2004 because what’s going on here is that a lot of the people looking to move are directly affected. This isn’t some generic political opposition. Its well, maybe I’m from a marginalized identity group.

Maybe its Jews, with rising anti semitism, maybe its L, G, B, T, Q, people, as we see, all sorts of protections stripped and threatened to be stripped. Maybe it’s the people that fall under the umbrella of my profession may either be targeted or might be hurt economically by the ideas and the policies that Donald Trump is putting forward. And what is really important to understand about this is that economically, this is not good for the United States. I know that if you say to your average Maga, hey, look at these people who are moving to Europe or wherever they’re moving, they would go, Oh, those sissy liberals joining the sissy Europeans. Let them go and smoke their thin cigarettes while sipping espresso outside of a cafe in Paris. We don’t want him here. Okay, fine. That may be the case culturally, but the truth, as we know, of course, is that the brain drain the United States is experiencing, and in fact, we’re seeing it in the red states. We’ve talked about how abortion laws have pushed competent, qualified, good doctors, obese gynecologist, to move out of those red states. That makes the problem even worse. And if we start looking at it at the country level, skilled professionals, scientists and others looking abroad, another example, Germany’s Max Planck Society has seen a huge increase in applications from American researchers, and they’re saying Trump is giving us a new talent pool. There is a degree to which this is zero sum. And what I mean by that is, if you’re a good scientist or an innovative entrepreneur or an excellent doctor, you can provide the value of your services and knowledge and intelligence in either the United States or somewhere else, and if we see them leave the United States, that is brain power that has left. So my a message to the Maga people laughing This off would be economically, a lot of this stuff is looking really poor, the tariffs which are going to make everything more expensive and hurt American businesses and consumers, the tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations that Donald Trump wants to extend and add are not going to be good for the average American. The Brain Drain caused by people leaving the country is not going to be good for the United States economically or otherwise. And so at their own peril, they ignore that. This is a problem now it we also should mention a lot of the countries people want to go to are difficult countries to move to, and so it is not the easiest thing to do, and that certainly.

Is being reflected in people’s reactions as they learn more. You know that I’d love to move to Denmark. Yes, many people would. Denmark a small country, it’s difficult to move to a lot of people would love to move there. Very few are actually going to be able to do so. So let me know. Has this crossed your mind? What do you think of the people doing it? Be curious to hear your thoughts.