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What Next Podcast: The Upside Of Tariffs (slate.com)

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Episode Notes

Maybe Trump doesn’t care if the economy tanks—maybe he believes he can play it all to his advantage. And maybe, through a lot of pain, this is the only way America’s going to learn its lesson.

Guest: Jonathan Last, editor of The Bulwark

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[–] Botzo@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

This is your regular reminder the the bulwark is absolutely not progressive. They're a bunch of never trumper Republicans.

From the transcript (B is the bulwark guy):

Speaker B: ... Democrats should welcome this development.

Speaker A: Are you still on Team welcome the tariff right now?

Speaker B: 100%.

Speaker A: Really?

Speaker B: I mean, yeah, yeah. It’s the only way to get rationality into the system. I guess this makes me an accelerationist, which is macabre. ...

Wow such empathy, so bold. This immediately after he talks about wanting CEOs to have to sell their yacht. Maybe one day this dipshit will wake up. We can hope.