As the crazed Orange Ogre continues bringing his campaign screeds to fruition, his most ardent supporters will have to be prepared to put their money where their mouths are, both literally and figuratively. And although we are quickly moving into a euphemistically phrased 'post-fact' era, the Trump apparatchik, in their current anti-Mexico incarnation, will face real challenges in attempting to spin away some cold economic facts that go well beyond merely paying more for products of Mexican origin, if a 20% tariff is imposed:
When it comes to paying up, the rubber will hit the road, Lorne. Putting your signature on paper is easy.
ReplyDeleteit will be interesting to see what happens when hard-nosed reality collides with crazed policy visions, Owen.
DeleteI'm taken by how Trump signs these executive decrees. His gaudy signature bears an odd resemblance to an electrocardiogram during a coronary event.
ReplyDeleteThese executive decrees are procedurally telling. Yes Obama did sign plenty of them but they had first gone to the appropriate departments for review and cleared the lawyers. Steve Bannon writes Trump's decrees which go through no review process. That's not an executive act, it's an exercise in imperial rule.
Autocracy has found a home in the good old U.S. of A., Mound.
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