A Coalition of the Sane Must Rise to Meet the Trump Tariff Threat - Spencer Fernando

Market and strength will be the two divisions of the rich world, Philipp Blom said years ago. Anyone who does not feel part of the liberal dream will be protected after an impaled, “authoritarian response to cold market freedom.” When people do not feel listened to or protected we seek radical answers. If the neoliberal model does not effectively address growing inequality, we will be attracted by the other, authoritarian and protectionist model…

A Coalition of the Sane Must Rise to Meet the Trump Tariff Threat - Spencer Fernando

For a while, the idea of 'MAGA communism' was a joke, with only a few strange far-left & far-right online figures promoting it. The overarching idea - which few took seriously - was that Trump's alignment with Russia, his disdain for the institutions that helped the West win the Cold War (NATO, WTO), his opposition to free trade, his zero-sum worldview, his affinity for communist-linked dictators (former KGB agent Putin, Communist Party leader X…