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What this analysis is missing is Project 2025. The Heritage Foundation and a hundred other conservative thinktanks, as well as half of Congress are all in on a singular plan to transform America into a backwater shit hole. Trump might earnestly believe these things, but he is not the source of most of his ideas. They are spoonfed to him.

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I agree that Project 2025 broadly sets the agenda, but when it comes to tariffs specifically, I'm under the impression that Trump is singularly obsessed with them and the conservative think tanks are, even if they're pro-tariff, uneasy with how far he's going with it.

Ha. Good point. It's analogous to summoning a demon, isn't it. They thought they could control it.

Don’t forget Curtis Yarvin and his band of billionaire Silicon Valley VC adherents.

People are arguing about the economic rationale here and forgetting the philosophical.

They’ve broadcast a desire to send as much of the world to a new “dark age” as possible so they can sweep in and “save it”, reforming it as they desire. Vis a vis Prospero

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