The paragraph starting "By the numbers, the tariffs are less an expression of economic theory and more a Dadaist art piece about the meaninglessness of expertise" should show up in subtitles rolling across the TV screen whenever anyone from the administration is wheeled out to defend the tarrifs.
Reposted from Last Neocon
“The notion that taxing Lesotho gemstones is necessary for the U.S. to add steel jobs in Ohio is so absurd that I briefly lost consciousness in the middle of writing this sentence.” - @dkthomp.bsky.social

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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