There ought to be more discussion of the fact that so many government officials are straight-up political ideologues.
If you are a civil servant, if you are a manager, if you are an economist — you ought to go wherever the data takes you. Find what works. Adjust your goals. Chase success.
These people don’t do that.
They believe that globalism is good, national sovereignty is bad, and they don’t care what happens to the marketplace, the GNP, trade deals, or any of that stuff. Reality doesn’t matter. Their political ideology matters and they are unwilling to change their thinking.
This is NOT the sort of person who should be in government. They cannot be a good steward of the commonwealth.
Agreed.
The TDS is so strong with these people, they cannot even concede the benefit of the doubt to anything Trump is trying. So he says “let’s use tariffs as a tool, as a bargaining chip. We are so deep in the hole with trade, why not?”
Even I, no macro-economics expert, can see the need for “wait and see”. But no, the minute he brings up the idea of tariffs to bargain with, they are all over him.
Seems like a similar scenario to his bargaining with North Korea. They can’t concede the possibility that his plan might work, and then when it does they are totally flummoxed.
I love Laura Ingraham’s show. I tape it and watch it with coffee in the morning. She always has this token, bald headed democrat talking point on there, who invariably will bash Trump at every turn. Does not matter, what he’s done good for the country, this guy finds something to bring up negative. IT’s getting old, and I will usually fast forward any segment that he’s on.