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Originally Posted by Adder
I do not understand why this is a surprise to so many people. We have been saying this about him for a decade.
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If you believe the view that he is transactional and self-interested, the tariffs make no sense. They actually harm his own businesses and piss off the donor class.
The consensus on him for most of those ten years has been that he is self-interested and driven by desire for personal wealth.
It appears that was wrong, or he has changed. It appears now that he really thinks one can materially revive manufacturing here. This may be senility.
Trump has an ideological core of a sort. It seems to be a mix of McKinley, Hoover, and Teddy Roosevelt. It's Trump's Early 1900s, and we're just living in it.
