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The Political Notebook 5.20.2025
Is it a tax cut or avoiding a tax increase? It’s too early for Arizona Democrats to be crying in the beer about the 2026 election.
The Trump endgame: managed trade
The flow of goods across borders will be decided more by agreements between political leaders, and less by the market forces of comparative advantage and consumer preferences.
The Trump blitzkrieg has been a political loser
The body politic might want change, but not chaos.
For congressional Republicans, will enough ever be enough?
Do any of them have a “sacred honor” to pledge?
Tariff tantrums and contradictions
As in geopolitics, the Trump effect will cause a realignment in trade.
Democrats struggle over an opposition strategy
Trump generates his own opposition. Don’t do things that narrow a potentially broad opposition coalition.
The DOGE dodge
For the cause of fixing the finances of the federal government, DOGE is a destructive and distracting sideshow.
Trump abdicates U.S. role as leader of the free world
Now that U.S. commitments are untrustworthy, there will be a geopolitical realignment among other democratic countries.
The Full Trump
Trump is duplicating Biden’s mistake of misreading election results.