Yup, when democrats want to increase the deficit for infrastructure spending (which would create local US jobs), Republicans are all boo-hiss, not on my watch, clutching their pearls.
When they want to give their wealthy donors giant tax cuts, oh yeah, trickle down economics, yessir.
Please don;t try to explain to me this whole tax bill was for the greater good. It was most certainly not. I moved here from a third world country. Whats going on in the US right now, is the same script I grew up seeing (and still see when I travel back). What amazes me is how quickly the entire institutional framework crumbled. Maybe its a natural effect of any nation growing rich & powerful, nowhere to go but down.