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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
These tariffs are such a colossal, unforced, self-inflicted debacle, worse than the Gulf War or Brexit.
Barbara Tuchman wrote a book years ago called The March Of Folly, about governments that pursued mistakes that were widely understood at the time to be mistakes, like Britain's loss of the American colonies and the US in Vietnam. I think I need to re-read it.
Democrats ought to be branding this stuff with the word Republican, because Trump is not going to be running in two or four years, and congressional Republicans are too scared and feckless to stand up for what they know they ought to be doing. Congress gave the executive this tariff power, and Congress could take it away.
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There are like three people in the world who thinks these tariffs are a good idea, but every GOP elected official fears one of them.
