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He's been sold on a fundamentally holistic view of the economy. "This may be uncomfortable now, but I trust it will produce a large national windfall in the future".
It isn't a bad attitude to have on its face. People do need to accept certain short term discomforts in order to achieve long term economic benefits, whether that means working industrial jobs to produce new useful infrastructure or risking personal health/safety in military conflicts to establish national security or curbing consumption to avoid long term ecological harm.
But the mass media this guy is ingesting is bullshit. So the benign "we're investing in the future" perspective is corrupted into a gullible "my local neighborhood wallet inspector is just helping to remove these counterfeit bills from the money supply" political apathy.
He's the victim of an intense, industrial scale propaganda campaign.
Incidentally...
There is a precedent.
Hey, that trickle down is gonna happen any day now, exactly as promised!
"Trickle Down" is patterned, as a sales pitch, to sound like a Capitalist New Deal. Its the same pitch line, except its keyed to an audience that's been drubbed over the head with "The government can't be trusted to do anything nice for you" forty years after the New Deal and Great Society programs have gone stale.
You want modernized infrastructure? You want domestic growth? You want luxury consumer goods? Let private investment work its magic.
And, in fairness, we are now awash in privatized infrastructure, a staggeringly bloated finance sector, and mountains of cheap consumerist babbles well within the reach of the median consumer. The trickle came down. In 1980, a full wall of custom themed Marvel Branded Bobble-heads would have cost you a fortune. Now you can get it on a fry cook's salary.
The indoctrination system has people willing to suffer and die for their gods.