The Trump Era’s Trade-Offs

The Trump Era’s Trade-Offs

If someone suggested a throughline lesson in this week’s plane crash in India and deportation raids in Southern California, you might expect to hear a mind-bending yarn from a new edition of Freakonomics. But the events offer a parable about the Trump era’s trade-offs — and how MAGA’s culture war serves oligarchs’ economic class war.Before anyone mutters “Trump Derangement Syndrome,” consider a sequence of recent administration decisions.Last mo…