A basic category error
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I wish to offer the following dictum: However stupid you think Donald Trump is, he is stupider than that.
@realDonaldTrump
We have massive Financial Deficits with China, the European Union, and many others. The only way this problem can be cured is with TARIFFS, which are now bringing Tens of Billions of Dollars into the U.S.A. They are already in effect, and a beautiful thing to behold. The Surplus with these Countries has grown during the “Presidency” of Sleepy Joe Biden. We are going to reverse it, and reverse it QUICKLY. Some day people will realize that Tariffs, for the United States of America, are a very beautiful thing!
The sanewashing around Trump’s “risky tariff policy” assumes that there’s something that rises to the level of a policy, that involves some sort of rational risk calculation. This is false.
It’s like trying to discuss the costs and benefits of “open heart surgery” after observing someone stabbing somebody else 23 times in the chest. Stabbing someone in the chest 23 times is not open heart surgery, and Trump’s insane destruction of the world’s international trade structure is not a “tariff policy.”