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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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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So the explanation that ties all of this together is… A reactionary movement by a group that is losing relative power and trying to recreate the conditions under which they formerly dominated unequivocally? i.e. clear gender hierarchies, bullying foreign policy, etc
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