At least on the US tariffs thing, congress can put Trump back in his box and revert to normalcy any time it wants to; the threat of stagflation might make it do that. The previous stagflation incident was more driven by outside forces.
Plenty of countries have elections that are neither free nor fair. More likely Election Day suddenly ceases to occur.
"A republic, if you can keep it"
The question I put to every individual American is: can you?
We’ve already lost export market share. China, Russia and India have already begun building a trade bloc. FDI has already been trashed.
We’re already in for a world of hurt. And personally, I’m eager to ensure it lands disproportionately on his voters and donors.
That would certainly be nice, but we're all in the boat together. There is no safe haven when idiots are in charge.
But you see, dogs and cats were being eaten, and the other lady cackled too much...
I fear you're right, but hope you're not.
Yes, this is wishful thinking on my part.
I don't want to wish ill on anyone.
The horse has bolted, you can't ctrl-z this.
I have some bad news. It's already some 8 months too late for "rapid".
> Not enough time has really passed for things to change _that_ much
Here in Brazil we are in a mini economic boom because every single country is willing to pay a premium on anything that didn't come from the US. The EU is shutting up internal racist and protectionist dissidents (strong on their 2 largest economies) so that they can diversify from you. Most of the world is discussing independent payment systems... Nato countries are organizing to defend against the US and China and Russia are promising military protection to Latin America.
I wonder if things changed that fast when WWI started, but it absolutely never changed that fast in my lifetime.
I'm European, not American. I think that if given strong guarantees that Trump had been declawed, the EC would be happy enough to return to prior arrangements (though probably move ahead with the Mercosur deal and other trade treaties at an accelerated pace, granted).
Probably more importantly, the US has lost trust.