.@realDonaldTrump’s weak spot is a lack of understanding of geopolitics & the interconnectedness of everything. All presidents have weak spots (the last one had his weak spots) - this is Trump’s. => https://twitter.com/jonathanvswan/status/969203979245662208 …
I didn't say POTUS was an idiot - I said doesn't appear to get this 1 thing. (Bush implemented steel tariffs too, I don't think that was right just cuz wasn't Trump) Plus I regularly offered critical analysis of Obama (ie. Iran deal) despite how smart he is given elected prez
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I mean (I don't like the comparison but..) did MacArthur land and Inchon because he just "didn't get" that he was supposed to break out of the Pusan perimeter and march north the normal way? or because he thought his way was better
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I'm not arguing that Trump doesn't think his way is better and has his reasons, I'm saying his reasoning is faulty & not better. I'm not criticizing motives or saying he's not a thinking person.
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or, if you went to a used car lot and the salesman said "I want to show you the greatest car in the world!" and took you to an old beater, would you say "this guy is bad at his job because he doesn't even know that's not the best car in the world"?
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Trump's motives are not the issue - his methods are.
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him instituting a tariff on chinese solar panels caused a chinese company to open a plant here in the US. what's the issue with that method?
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Steep steel tariffs are not solar tariffs. But even that gets beyond my broader critique.
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so your critique was a narrow one only about "steep" steel tariffs? come on
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We're going around in circles now. I stand by my analysis; I think some of your arguments have merit despite differing from mine, you argue well. Now I have to write an actual story.
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I think its much more likely that he's a rational actor pursuing a goal of his own in the way that seems best to him than it is that he just doesn't understand the way that these things could be done or are regularly done
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Fair enough. Viable theory and rational well reasoned counter to my analysis. I disagree (obviously) but you make a good case.
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