The interesting thing is Levin never used to peddle himself as an expert in economics, tariffs or any of it. He just started to talk and act like an expert and his audience accepts it.
“The interesting thing is Levin never used to peddle himself as an expert in economics, tariffs or any of it. He just started to talk and act like an expert and his audience accepts it.”
He gets away with it because only a minute number of people read this sort of history and know that he’s full of $%it.
And his sudden interest in the subject is because Trump intends to use tariffs and the threat of them to force concessions from our mercantilist trade partners, for the purpose of saving the battered blue collar workers of the Rust Belt. By opposing them with a cartoon version of free trade he thinks he has a stick with which to beat Trump, or at least call him a Hillary-Bernie Leftist as he has been doing today.
In Levin World the non-college blue collar folks are to be left to the mercies of the targeted trade policies of our rivals that are laughably called ‘free trade’ by its cynical apologists and the useful idiots who bear none of the brunt of these policies.