The president elect seems to be hell bent on delivering his economically suicidal campaign promises.
First, he is committed to massive tariffs everywhere (except where Musk and the Trump supporting billionaires don't approve). This raises prices of imports dramatically, and of course it also raises prices of competing domestic goods as well to almost as high but not quite as high as the imports. Boom, inflation - bigly bigly bigly.
Second, he just announced that he is going to declare a "national emergency" (bullshit) and use the MILITARY as well as immigration officials to round up and deport millions of brown skinned workers in America. This, in addition to being cruel, is stupid. Who brings food to our markets and food processing plants? You will be hard pressed to find any other than brown skinned folks in the fields. This is just old, old, old racism all over again. This is just an autocrat finding someone to blame and promising to punish. It was his number one attraction to get votes. It is not a stretch to imagine that the round up will not be focused and fair. It seems pretty certain, to me at least, that racists will be involved in the purging of America of all who are not White Christians. There will be naturalized citizens and born in America citizens with latin names and brown skin who will be disappeared from our neighborhoods. Welcome to empty shelves in our supermarkets. And higher food prices - bigly bigly bigly.
Disgusting.
But, you say, if he causes such economic calamity he and MAGA will just be voted out in 2028. Are you joking? The whole plan of Trump, Vance, Heritage Foundation, Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, White Christian Nationalists, Opus Dei Catholics, New Apostolic Reformation Christians, etc. etc. etc. is to end democracy and go into Russian and Venezuelan make believe elections. They gave up on democracy.
But, you say, they won't be able to because the Courts will stop them. Are you kidding? This Roberts Supreme Court has proven again and again that it is out to end democracy and establish a theocratic and oligarchic autocracy - from gutting the Voting Rights laws of the ‘60s to granting Trump full immunity from any action he takes while in office that he declares to be an "official act"
These folks think that they have succeeded in creating an autocracy. Trump thinks has has been crowned king (maybe we see him in a professional wrestling ring setting being crowned "king of WWE” to the uproarious cheers of MAGAs)
BUT...this is America, with a quarter of a millennium of democracy and rule of law behind us. We are not going to let this pass. The world turns, and times change, and the future is what is coming, not a return to some non-existent America of MAGA fantasies.
