Trump has people in Canada, Mexico, Japan and Europe a bit worried about how we’ll fare in a trade war with the United States. We’re told we could be heading toward a recession, a drop in GDP of perhaps 2 per cent. Trump’s abuse of America’s traditional allies is small
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The Disaffected Lib: Living With Trump in the Age of Entropy. We Have to Figure This Out and Soon.
The Washington Post carried this message of warning from Steve Bannon in February, 2017: Bannon dismissed the idea that Trump might moderate his positions or seek consensus with political opponents. Rather, he said, the White House is digging in for a long period of conflict to transform Washington and upend
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Taking Democracy for Granted. We’re Probably On This Road Too.
Andrew Sullivan has a thought-provoking essay in New York Magazine about how we’re killing off liberal democracy and not just in Poland or Hungary or the United States either. This elite condescension toward challenges to their power stems, philosopher John Gray recently argued, from a fundamental and demonstrably false assumption that
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Why the Obama-Xi Emissions Deal is Window Dressing.
The CO2 emissions deal reached this week by the presidents of the US and China is a positive step, no doubt about that. It’s also far too little, much too late, although it’s reflective of how inflexible our global society has become even in matters of our very survival. Even
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