Remember Trump's de facto intelligence test? — he failed the international trade part of it, as well

© 2018 Peter Free

 

25 June 2018

 

 

I spoke about Trumpian IQ testing before . . .

 

. . . when the President revoked the Iran nuke agreement and screwed American workers at Boeing, as well as our allies, in one swoop.

 

Not content with that illustrious demonstration of destructive nitwitism, the President has now managed to start an international trade war. Even emphatically American Harley Davidson is running abroad for cover.

 

 

Is the U.S. public complicit with Trump's labor-destroying actions?

 

I'd say so.

 

No one seems to question the legitimacy of the Presidency's purported authority to begin an international trade war completely on his own narcissistic impulse.

 

Virtually everyone appears to accept that we live in a gulag run solely for the Emperor's glorification.

 

 

I have long supported renegotiating unfavorable trade agreements, but . . .

 

. . . thoughtless trade-warring of the President's kind is self-destructively dumb.

 

The world is too integrated for childish tantrums and zero sum thinking to be considered productive.

 

 

The moral? — Resist . . .

 

. . . or admit that public cowardice and guaranteed personal freedom cannot coexist.