text: Mr. Trump's public policies and plans are laudable in a folksy, unsophisticated simplicity. However, his methods of achieving those commitments can, in many cases, do more harm than good. His efforts to bring back jobs won't work because most of those jobs were lost to automation and not corporate decisions to flee to low cost jurisdictions.  His proposed tax cuts and increased spending defy logic for a country that is in impossible debt. This has not deterred Mr. Trump's supporters who prefer to live in denial of reality.