our problem as people not infected by the authoritarian mind virus is that we are trying too hard to make sense of Trump’s tariffs as economic policy. Instead it is primarily symbolic, an attempt to reassert the fantasy of a racial colonial patriarchal family romance onto the world.
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Aaron Rupar
Kudlow: "Buying cheap goods is not a real prosperity, and we don't have to accept that. So you lay the law down, that's all. Look, all the badly behaving children in Asia and elsewhere are coming home to papa. They're all on the phone begging for mercy."
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-Woodrow Racist Wilson
He’s trying to make the entire planet into his personal colosseum, where he gets to throw anyone he wants into the ring to be eaten by lions, while his craven crowd cheers.