Principles don't save you in business. Whether we agree with it or not, we live in a debt based system. Leveraging debt is what billionaires do. It's what Michael saylor is doing currently. 

And what exactly is the alternative to printing money when you have half of the world effectively unemployed due to govern action? 

They were putting business owners in jail for opening their doors. What do you do as president?  

 Allow blue states to bankrupt themselves and have people flock to Texas and Florida And other freer states. Basically just allow people to be free. It's not that hard.

Would those commie policies have lasted so long if they weren't backed up by federal communism?