...the Harvard-Trump situation: we give you money, so we can tell you what to do if you want the money. This caused some foreign businesses to think twice about building factories here with support of the government.
We've created a situation in this country where the presidential election changes everything. The business world is in a perpetual state of whiplash, as businesses attempt to manage the transitions from party to party.
Problem is, each party says the other side is being a dictator, and their own side is not, and neither party wants to fix the systemic problems we have created, because fixing them would diminish their power while they have it. Regardless of whether you call it an elective dictatorship/monarchy or the like, or just abuse of powers which has become the norm, or just whataboutism of the other side, the situation is the same.
Congress better enact some of Trump's changes, or these may be short term changes indeed when a dictator from the other party is elected next and starts issuing executive orders and gives all former government workers 4 years of back pay, and reopens the border, etc.