i feel compelled to remind people that the problem ain't the tariffs. the problem is that a single person has the power to quite literally immiserate hundreds of millions of people at the whim of his deeply incurious and senile mind.
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when people talk about problems being structural, this is a good example of what that means. the executive has too much power in the US and it has since 1946. if you have to flawlessly pick the 'right' person to fill the office each time or else it's a calamity, that is a fundamental systemic issue.
a good system leaves space for redundancy, it accounts for potential mistakes, and it has ways to check for and rectify errors. by making the presidency into an elected monarchy almost eighty years ago, the US government has been increasingly eliminating all three of those things.
(also more broadly the global economic system has largely eroded all three as well as they are perceived by it as a limit on capital, and if you're read the old man you know that capital abhors a limit)
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