Comments: One of the more depressing things about the current “Trump is a Russian Stooge” craze, and the other lunacies shrieking in the media is their opportunity cost, pushing out all observation of anything true and interesting about our nearly revolutionary times.
What might be the actual economic costs and gains of pulling back from current trade arrangements, and reducing free movement of jobs from our country? Who wins and who loses? Is there any way this can be made to work well for current American workers?
What kind of management style might we expect from someone like Trump, given his unique background as someone who became President without ever being in government in any capacity, but who was successful in his own private business? What might be the upside and downside to such a background?
What does it mean to be looking out strictly for American interests in the current world, from a diplomatic and military point of view? What should be the limits to our obligations to other countries, and to people in other countries?
You see, we can’t have those discussions in the current media environment. In that setting, the only permitted “analyses” are those that show we are heading off to doom, that Trump is the first phase of Hitler, that the Russians are Coming, and that men in white hoods rampage through our lands in bloodthirsty search of the Dark Other.
