You made a strong conjunction that deregulation lead to economic growth lead to popular support for the regime in four years. That definitely did not happen to China in the first four years after Mao’s death. Maybe if you cherry-pick 1980-1984 as the beginning of Deng’s real hold on power it is an example, but I doubt it.
Sure, if you want to open up the pathways and no longer predict a conjunction, I can’t stop you, but I do complain that this is a new prediction. But predicting that Trump will abolish States’ Right so quickly to have economic effects doesn’t seem very plausible to me. I wouldn’t be focusing on elections in that scenario.
You made a strong conjunction that deregulation lead to economic growth lead to popular support for the regime in four years. That definitely did not happen to China in the first four years after Mao’s death. Maybe if you cherry-pick 1980-1984 as the beginning of Deng’s real hold on power it is an example, but I doubt it.
Sure, if you want to open up the pathways and no longer predict a conjunction, I can’t stop you, but I do complain that this is a new prediction. But predicting that Trump will abolish States’ Right so quickly to have economic effects doesn’t seem very plausible to me. I wouldn’t be focusing on elections in that scenario.
the US regime operates on popular support in a way very unlike that of China.
The difference is that the regime in China actually has popular support while the US regime doesn’t.