Giridharadas: Trump Is Running His Economic Policy Based on Bullying and Pleasure in Inflicting Pain

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GIRIDHARADAS: "Yeah, I mean, I think we’re seeing something really remarkable right now, which is a historical rarity, which is in Donald Trump, a wannabe dictator who makes the trains run late, who makes tickets more expensive, who depletes your savings that you would use to buy those train tickets, the whole promise of this kind of authoritarianism is the trains running on time. This is chaos. This is — what was it, $5 trillion we had wiped out since the inauguration? That’s $15,000 per American on average. So — and for what? Right? This is a — this is a president who’s running an economic policy now based on kind of bullying and domination, as Gillian was talking about, a kind of pain and a pleasure in inflicting this pain and, 'We’re going to have to have necessary pain.' And it’s also applying New York City real estate, which is the only framework he understands, to a world economy and a world political system which he doesn’t understand, and trying to basically make deals and create this wall of tariffs that he can then, you know, poke holes in one deal at a time. It’s the corruption opportunity of a lifetime at the expense of your family.”