The way Trump is using the lame-duck period to bully corporations with threats about his future policies is insidiously brilliant
There are fixed costs, lots of contracts to sign, "pipelines". Once you start Y, Y may be forced even if bill fails
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And if other companies haven't done Y, and you're stuck in low-profit Y while competitors do X, you're actually in big trouble
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Exec is meh on Y, but he evaluates Y only cuz that's genuinely best choice IF the bill passes. So now he wants bill to pass!
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If Trump can terrify a sufficient number of companies that they decide doing Y later isn't enough, they need to start Y now,
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then the whole political calculus of corporations for his protectionist bills/against his protectionist bills shifts.
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