It'll be longer than that. If during that 2.5 years more and more companies move away from US companies, why do you think they would just abandon the non-US company to move back to a US company? The non-US company would have to be sooooo bad for that to happen. Also, there's no guarantee that the next US administration will be the opposite of the current, and even if it is there's no guarantee the one after that won't flip back.

The long-term trends don't exactly reverse under Democratic administrations.

No, that’s the new status quo. Even if democrats get in power next time:

1) it’s fairly unlikely that they give up on more powers voluntarily (exactly how much of the patriot act and the post-9/11 rules were given up by Obama and Biden?)

2) there is always the possibility of a future switch to another populist nutcase (or hell, any nutcase really). We are not going to trust American voters to be sensible anymore. We’ll need a couple of sane administrations and long-term polling data for that.

> For 2.5 more years.

That would not be a big problem. But the next Republican president may be even worse than Trump. Trump is just the symptom of a deeper corruption problem.

That things will fix themselves when Trump is not in the White House anymore is a dangerous misconception.

Midterm may accelerate the process.

And then at least 4 more years times 2.

What’s the excuse for when the problems remain when the leadership changes?

> For 2.5 more years.

Who is going to trust US voters with not voting for a man-child?

Remember: Trump got in twice.