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Winners & Losers | Commerce Run Amok & a Churchillian Speech
All eyes are on Minneapolis, but American losers are everywhere.
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ICE agents are shooting Americans. They are forcefully entering our homes without warrants. They are destroying evidence of their crimes, and Trump spokespeople are denying that crimes have even taken place.
Don’t believe your lying eyes, they tell us.
Last year, the talk was about the unwinding of our government’s administrative capacity. Government agencies were gutted, the people who worked tirelessly to support them were fired. USAID was ended. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting was defunded (RIP). The Department of Education. The Smithsonian. On and on and on.
So much ink was spilled imagining how to put these pieces back together. It felt impossible. But now, re-imagining government agencies feels quaint and simple by comparison to what we’re facing.
We are facing down the prospect of a massive legal, structural project to hold accountable the tens of thousands of men and women who are putting all of our lives in danger by ignoring the Constitution and state and local (and federal!) laws.
The destruction of the Department of Education can be temporary. But Renee Good and Alex Pretti have lost their lives forever.
All of this is to say that picking a Loser this week is incredibly dark and difficult.
Our focus has been so intensely trained on Minneapolis — and rightly so — that some of us might have forgotten that the world has woken up to the threat of Trump. Or that American warships have arrived near Iran. Or that Marco Rubio is in charge of Venezuela (is that still a thing?)
I’ve chosen a Winner and Loser that will remind us that Trump is not only causing chaos in American streets, but he’s also overseeing one of the most stunning acts of global self-immolation the world has ever seen.
Howard Lutnick, Loser
Howard Lutnick is the former head of Cantor Fitzgerald and our current U.S. Secretary of Commerce. He’s someone who has benefited wildly from American economic policy, but who now complains about how bad they’ve been … for decades!
He’s an America First guy who wants to limit the focus on foreign trade and renewable energy so that Americans can once again work in factories and suffer from preventable environmental diseases like black lung.
Wonderful!
(He has not claimed he wants that, but his policy positions seem to indicate it). ...
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