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There is a trade deficit because you want my things more than I want yours
(I make good stuff, you make crap)

So, to punish me you will make your people pay more for my stuff.
This will encourage your industry to make more of the crap I didn't want in the first place.

Is that how tariffs work?

Since being out of the US a few years, I've come to understand Trumpism in a way that I didn't when I was there.

I have two friends (neither of whom voted for Trump) but they're both men in their early 50s, both college educated (ie have a university degree) and both have worked since their 20s in various jobs.

One of them has one child and lives with his wife. Until just two years ago, he never had a job that paid him a living wage for a single man.

The other has no kids, and lives with/takes care of his (now elderly) mother. He works two, sometimes three jobs to get by, despite working for the federal government (as a contractor) for the last ~20 years in various roles.

Both of these men are intelligent, thoughtful, and I'd argue are both relatively hard workers (particularly the second) and yet the system has entirely failed them.

America's social contract *has* broken down, and while I don't see the appeal of Trump, I certainly understand thinking "Let's start over."

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Does anyone have a pattern and instructions for making a cute little Donald Trump doll? I'd like to have one handy that I can stick pins into, since that seems to be one of the few avenues for participatory governance left open to us.
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Cassandra from The Before Times

"If the collective narcissism pack is large enough, and powerful enough, it's almost impossible to get the narcissist, the autocrat, out of power."

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"This is the deeper meaning of the saying, “You’re only young once.” The kind of cognitive/emotional/social development that occurs during adolescence is a one-shot deal. And Trump missed his shot, just like all others with character disorders. Because they’ve never grown up, they remain very similar, like children: Vladimir Putin, Rodrigo Duterte, Trump, Mohammed bin Salman — they all recognize their reflections in one another. The fact that they all get along so well should chill us to our bones."

salon.com/2019/07/22/understan

Salon · Understanding our bully-in-chief: Donald Trump's "antisocial personality disorder" fits a patternYes, Donald Trump is an anomaly — for America. In global terms, the bully-turned-autocrat is distressingly common