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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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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Other countries are cast as hot chicks where you “win” by getting an advantageous trade deal that puts them in a systematically disadvantaged zero-sum situation. Like a PUA “score” or something. This isn’t economics. It is performative cartoon masculinity.
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I love your wrong take. USA is the engine of creativity & industrial commerce. We R the Order. We are polyamorous rich guys who can still dance, keep our wives, and get younger girlfriends. We will learn to love bankruptcy as a tool for change. Housing is our only rigid variable
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