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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
I'm pretty much the only person here nakedly saying that a good bit of the hand wringing about this guy is folks talking their books.
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Or maybe it's about the all the asylum seekers from central America whom we're sending back to Mexico, where they are not from, to wait in make-shift camps, where the Mexican government has no facilities to accommodate them they're being preyed upon by cartels. Or the kids in cages. Or the families being separated with inadequate record keeping to ever reunite them. Or the blanket ban on immigrants, now including from the largest county in Africa for basically no reason. Or the petty dictators he's propped up with unrepresented attention only to get pants in the subsequent negotiations. Or the allies he's abandoned and the American influence he's flushed down the toilet. Or how he's gutted environmental and safety standards.
Or, yes, the pointless trade war that he's both losing that is hurting farmers, workers and consumers.
There's nothing this guy is doing that is undermining the status quo in a way that helps the professional classes. Heck, his Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust recently said that over-enforcement risks harm to the merger markets, like that's a thing we're supposed to care about.
