the election in 16 and will do so ago...trade had much to do with our loss...we have no path forwards if we don't rebuild the blue wall in 20 and in 2024 either...The country does not like Trump's trade policies because they don't work ...but would choose them over the free trade of yesterday.

including what he generously calls free trade. The most astute observers have noted that most of his often bellicose posturing has little substance behind it other than to improve the near term stock values of his family and patrons.

Much as the Brexit faction appear tone-deaf regarding long term damage to their domestic economy and the suffering it will bring to those without multi-millions in the family portfolio, Trump seems ready to destroy all treaties he did not write in order to claim that he controls it all with no awareness of the damage he is doing to his own voters along with the country at large.

Like his Brexiteer cousins, Trump's decisions appear to have much more to do with eliminating the regulatory element of such agreements to the benefit of his vulture capitalist cronies. As with Brexit, he claims false glory by asserting that we were victimized by trading partners and must take revenge in the form of tariff wars. It is quite clear to anyone outside the Cult of Donald exactly who it is that the burden of those tariffs will fall upon.

More to the point Trump and the Brexit conservatives both appear to be advancing the political and economic goals of Vladimir Putin quite effectively, apparently by using the Putin playbook from Ukraine as a guide. One must wonder about that alignment and who in fact is steering both ships of state?