It seems likely that while Trump's actions might resemble other tariff proponents' strategies, he's just winging it, a bully boy swinging a club at other nations in order to replace the income tax with tariffs to the greatest extent possible, effecting a transfer of wealth from the many who suffer to the few with wealth. Simple-minded arithmetic, not analysis.
Yes. Winging it is probably the best term for it. What really gets to me is his Admin using the Founders as a crutch when they have never read any of their work and solely use them as a ploy for political advantage. Disgusting! And hurting the nation they built!
It seems likely that while Trump's actions might resemble other tariff proponents' strategies, he's just winging it, a bully boy swinging a club at other nations in order to replace the income tax with tariffs to the greatest extent possible, effecting a transfer of wealth from the many who suffer to the few with wealth. Simple-minded arithmetic, not analysis.
Yes. Winging it is probably the best term for it. What really gets to me is his Admin using the Founders as a crutch when they have never read any of their work and solely use them as a ploy for political advantage. Disgusting! And hurting the nation they built!
It's not the same nation, really, at this point.
Another iteration of the Tory/Patriot schism. It's a template.
We see it today in that Trumpists are the monarchical Tories. The King is absolute and infallible. They're back.
The revolution wasn't victory or defeat, it was the tide coming in for the patriots, and now it's gone back out. Same as it ever was. We'll be back.
Walter Karp explored the "Party" aspect of human nature in his "Indispensable Enemies".
Really nice essay.