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    isn’t defensible rationally.

    That entirely depends on requirements.

    Tariffs,

    Are a valid strategy and were the preferred solution to balance trade when the decision had to be made in the past. Unfortunately I don’t remember the name to look for on Wikipedia.

    vaccination and medical research

    Madness but could also be crowd control. They got the support of the vaccine crowd and split them off the left leaning independent thinkers.

    driving away the educated immigrants

    Same with immigrants in general. It’s bad for the economy. But they got ICE and there are no news about an actually happening brain drain.

    energy independence…

    Can’t push independence if they want all countries to be dependent.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madman_theory

    If Trump would blunder away American dominance the intelligent people and the billionaires would have pushed for an impeachment.

    In a world of hybrid wars and deception I don’t believe in stupidity without hard proof.

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      Look, you’re welcome to think Trump is a very stable genius that is actually playing 4D chess with all this. I don’t think I’m interested in continuing the discussion in that case though.

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        I don’t think that Trump is that genius. I just think that Trump’s behaviour can’t be used to believe in an incompetent US.

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          The Trump administration’s policies are Trump’s policies. There is no US separate from that. I think that should be very clear to anyone who has watched how much he has reshaped the federal government in a year.

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            I think that should be very clear to anyone who has watched how much he has reshaped the federal government in a year.

            JD Vance shows the influence of Thiel. Why should there be no influence on other positions?