He still thinks the target countries pay the tariffs. Can he really be this dumb? https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1137045728344170496 …
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Replying to @DougHenwood
He believes what he wants to believe -- that's not so much a question of intelligence as of character. This ability to believe his own fantasies is part of his success -- as it is of all con men.
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Replying to @HeerJeet
yeah that’s part of why I phrased this as a question - it could be a rhetorical trick - I started re-reading Melville’s The Confidence-Man the other week and set it aside - gotta get back to it
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Replying to @DougHenwood
Philip Roth recommended reading The Confidence Man when Trump was elected!
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