I think something interesting going on. There’s a faction that thinks it is pro-trade but against the international rules based order, and wants a condition of Hobbesian bilateralism where there are no stable arrangements and some sort of mercantilist zero-sum realpolitik.
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It’s a bit like a decrepit, broke, precariously employed 55 year old divorcing wife of 20y and abandoning kids by talking himself into believing there’s a world of hot 22 year olds just waiting for him if he just works out a bit (aka steel-making) and gets hair implants (moon!)
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The big dissonance is that they think a version of “fair” free trade is achievable with 19th century style bilateral protectionism via weaponized tariffs and barriers. This strikes me as a sad middle-aged incel trying to learn PUA tricks and larping bronze-Age-paleo bs.
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Not sure what you mean by that... the metis?
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Yeah, definitely no dead weight there.
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