Jonathan Chait
Staff Writer at The Atlantic
Writer for New York magazine. Tweets with links are intended as prompts to read the linked story, not self-contained arguments substituting for the linked story
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1 week ago |
theatlantic.com | Jonathan Chait
Donald Trump’s most frightening power grab was undertaken with an undertone of sinister jocularity. There was no column of tanks in the streets, no burning of the legislature. The president and his partner in despotism, President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador, were bantering amiably in the Oval Office in front of the press corps, mocking the American court system with evident delight. Trump’s ploy is almost insultingly simple.
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1 week ago |
yahoo.com | Jonathan Chait
Donald Trump’s most frightening power grab was undertaken with an undertone of sinister jocularity. There was no column of tanks in the streets, no burning of the legislature. The president and his partner in despotism, President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador, were bantering amiably in the Oval Office in front of the press corps, mocking the American court system with evident delight. Trump’s ploy is almost insultingly simple.
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1 week ago |
theatlantic.com | Jonathan Chait
The markets are going haywire, and consumer confidence is nosediving. You might be wondering why the Trump administration decided to burn down the healthy economy it inherited. Is it pure incompetence? Or is there a plan? The answer to both questions appears to be yes. The incompetence is undeniable. But the administration does have a plan, or at least a vision, for what will spring up from the ashes. The trouble is that the long-term economic program is even worse than the short-term one.
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2 weeks ago |
theatlantic.com | Jonathan Chait
Only yesterday, President Donald Trump was mocking Republicans nervous about his global trade war as “Panicans.” In a defiant speech to the National Republican Congressional Committee, he insisted, “This time I’m doing what I want to do with respect to the tariffs,” and that only he had the courage to defy “the globalists.”But the globalists turn out to have had enough power to bring Trump to heel after all.
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2 weeks ago |
theatlantic.com | Jonathan Chait
Last November, Republican Representative Troy Nehls of Texas told reporters that “if Donald Trump says tariffs work, tariffs work. Period. Because Donald Trump is really never wrong.” This expression of faith in the great leader is a precept of MAGA-ism.
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RT @samstein: it appears Kyle Cheney, a "legal affairs reporter," did have a grasp of the facts.
RT @ed_kilgore: Shouldn't be that hard for Democratic pols to reject protectionism. The rank-and-file currently hate tariffs. Every Democra…
They're arresting people at Tesla dealerships? I'd be a little wary of setting foot in one.
Bondi: Within the next 24 hours you're going to be seeing another huge arrest on a Tesla dealership. That person will be looking at least 20 years in prison with no negotiations. https://t.co/PALxeaaLi3
