Trump has staged an unscheduled, midair rapid disassembly of the global system of trade. Ironically, it is this system that prevented all of America's tradin...
So, that’s what I’m here to talk about today—the post-American internet we can wrestle away from Trump’s chaos. The kind of internet that’s possible because Trump has mobilized new coalition partners to fight on our side.
In politics, coalitions are everything. Anytime you see a group finally make a breakthrough after years of hitting walls, you can bet they’ve found new allies—people who don’t want all the same things but who share enough goals to fight together.
And that’s exactly where Trump came from. He’s leading a coalition of billionaires, white nationalists, Christian bigots, authoritarians, conspiratorialists, imperialists…and, of course, self-described libertarians whose main political drive is a scorching case of low-tax brainworms—people who’d vote for Mussolini if he promised to shave five cents off their tax bill.
Loved that!