Trumponomics
What kind of economic policy could we expect from a second Trump term?
“The chief economist of Moody’s Analytics estimated in 2019 that, a year in, Trump’s tariffs had cost the United States $88 billion and 340,000 jobs.”
What kind of economic policy could we expect from a second Trump term?
For decades, liberals have hoped for the de-Christianization of the American Right. It’s not all it’s cracked up to be.
Michel Houellebecq’s chronicles of modern discontent have made him one of the most renowned writers of the century as well as a far-right prophet. Yet liberalism’s fiercest critic still hasn’t found his alternative future.
“Even rich Trumpians and Tories will hype up their supposed working-class backgrounds.”
“The far right sees something deeply appealing in the mobster: he’s a violent but paternalistic form of uncontrolled power that operates outside the state.”
“It was the transformation of the onetime strongman into a cuddly grandpa figure that won the election.”
“Trump is and forever will be one thing: a multigenerational real estate schmuck.”
“Working-class voters are consistently more progressive on economic issues than their “enlightened” middle- and upper-class counterparts.”