No, NYT, trump hasn’t been “flirting” with any point of view or school of thought. He’s demented. He can barely speak coherently.

You fucks. You did this last time and the time before that for fuck’s sake. You put on your smart-guy glasses and the tweed with the patches on the elbows and you write articles pretending he’s not a drooling, farting, rapist traitor. Fucking knock it off you utter bastards and start reporting what he really is.

The trick here is the NYT trying to convince us that regular GOP economic policy ISN’T quackery. It’s all bullshit. Always has been. Trump isn’t more bullshit than any of the other GOP bullshitters.

We have all been living quack economics since Reagan. Don’t act like this bullshit is new.

flirting? isnt that what we call the last 40 years of trickle down, delete the middle class, suddenly billionaires-are-common … nonsense?

I, for one, can not believe that the man who tried to divert a hurricane with a sharpie is flirting with quackery.

Something else he has in common with Hitler.

The headline could be that he flirts with ducks and I don’t think I’d be surprised at this point.

He took lessons from Miliel. No, I dont know how to spell his name.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Indeed, even at the time they could have included the experience of the military dictatorship that ruled Argentina from 1976 to 1983, which killed or “disappeared” thousands of leftists but also pursued irresponsible economic policies that led to a balance-of-payments crisis and soaring inflation.

But his behavior during the Covid-19 pandemic showed that he’s as addicted to magical thinking and denial of reality as any petty strongman or dictator, which makes it all too likely that he might preside over the type of problems that result when policies are based on quack economics.

What’s really worrisome, however, are indications that a future Trump regime would manipulate monetary policy in pursuit of short-run political advantage, justifying its actions with crank economic doctrines.

The Federal Reserve is a quasi-independent institution, not because of any sacrosanct constitutional principle, but because nations have found that in practice it’s important to limit partisan influence over interest rates and money creation.

There are also reports that Trump advisers, obsessed with the trade deficit, want to devalue the dollar, which would indeed help exports but would also be clearly inflationary — raising import prices and overheating a U.S. economy that is already running hot.

And even as they talk about weakening the dollar, Trump advisers are reportedly discussing punishing other countries that reduce their use of the greenback — which seems both contradictory and to involve a delusional view of how much economic power even America possesses.

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If it quacks like a waste of oxygen…