Every event now feels like a wag the dog in every direction. On Trump’s side, he attempts to wrestle the media narrative away from the bloated, corporate oligarchy that now controls our so-called “free press.” Here is his own aspirational view of today’s announcement on how tariffs will revive the economy:
I like Trump’s big bet on America. I have always felt this way, even as a Democrat back when my party cared about building back our emptied out manufacturing industry.
Meanwhile, the press is ready to make it all seem like imminent doom on Wall Street. Narrative shaping is how people win elections in this country, maybe every country, but it still drives me nuts. You hate Trump, we get it.
Tariffs are complicated and have a long history in our young country. They divided us in the run-up to the Civil War, as a depression a few decades earlier put tariffs front and center: do they help or hurt a depressed economy. For the history of that, here are two unbiased takes on YouTube:
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