And anyone with any shred of expertise or training or experience in trade policy came out and predicted that exactly this would happen People were screaming that his ideas about tariffs and "trade wars" would ruin the country and leave farmers destitute And YOU DIDN'T CARE
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All the big-city smart people started running these insufferable meta thinkpieces about how Trumpism was appealing to populist everyday Americans who felt "ignored" and "left behind" and that when "elitist experts" "talked down" to those people, it just made them like him more
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THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DO THAT And everyone has a part in this -- the big-city smart people running clickbait about how voting for Trump made you some kind of fucking rebel and cool masculine badass most of all
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That's the whole frustrating thing about this, that people treated the election in 2016 like it wasn't REAL, like being President isn't a JOB, like it couldn't have material consequences to have someone doing it who didn't know how to do it Like it was just a cultural event
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That's the death of democracy -- or of any governing system -- when there's no connection between actions and consequences When whoever's making decisions fails to realize this is the real world and not a fucking game you play to signal what team you're on
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Yes, some pilots are straight up assholes, smug elitists who think they're fundamentally better than everyone else and treat other crew and passengers like shit However, they still actually know how to fly the fucking plane It kinda matterspic.twitter.com/HySqaIoOH9
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Leopards, faces, etc
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Turns out it sucks when the leopards eat your face off
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To be fair, yes he did explicitly say he was going to start a trade war. But he ALSO assured everyone that it would be easy to win.
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It's never easy to win a trade war. The other side isn't going to roll over and let their economy get tanked by tariffs. It never ever works. There is a historical precedent.
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