There Is No Plan -- Digby

[erronis]

https://digbysblog.net/2025/04/02/there-is-no-plan/

Paul Krugman published this earlier before the tariff announcement and he is 100% right:

From Apocalypse Now:

Willard: They told me that you had gone totally insane, and that your methods were unsound.

Kurtz: Are my methods unsound?

Willard: I don’t see any method at all, sir.

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Does he really believe that Canada is a major source of fentanyl? Worse, does he believe that fentanyl smugglers pay tariffs?

But is it all a cover for the real, probably sinister agenda of Trump’s tariff push?

No. There isn’t any secret agenda, devised by people who know that the public story is nonsense. How do I know that? Because who, exactly, do you think is devising this secret agenda?

As he goes on to point out, Trump’s advisers are all hacks and yes-men. There are no grown-ups.

This is all Trump’s whim, ungoverned by any expertise or any sense of responsibility. He believes his hype and all the rest of his sycophants and henchmen are just going along for the ride — and that’s assuming they know this is lunacy in the first place.

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I would say that there are some experts far away from the White House and cabinet that have the brains to try and annihilate democracy in the US.