Donald Trump is at War With America<\/em><\/a><\/p>\nTakes notes.\u00a0 Much of this is sure to come to pass.<\/p>\n
Voters are told he will fix immigration.\u00a0 What they aren’t told is that “fixing” immigration is just a smokescreen to jolt the economies of states he didn’t win, strongholds of the opposition.\u00a0 He will fulfill his promise, but only in a targeted way.\u00a0 He’ll declare victory over immigration while at the same time ruining the economies of some blue states.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Unfortunately for all of us, there will be unintended consequences, as there always are in most of these hairbrained plots.\u00a0 Hurting the economies of certain blue states will also ripple into the entire economy.\u00a0 Prices will rise (didn’t he promise they would fall?) as crops rot in the ground for want of harvesters (who are almost all immigrant workers).\u00a0 This is happening already with the California orange crop.\u00a0 I grew up around those orange groves and if the oranges aren’t harvested in a timely fashion, they rot and fall to the ground.\u00a0 But workers, as of Monday, aren’t showing up to work the harvest for fear of ICE raids.\u00a0 Get ready for higher prices.\u00a0 What if this persists into the spring?\u00a0 For example, California produces over 50% of the lettuce consumed in the U.S., but it’s consumed by all, including all of the red states.\u00a0 Couple that with a 25% import duty on veggies from Mexico, and you’ll see your grocery prices skyrocket.<\/p>\n
All of this is because Trump is only a “unifier” if he can strongarm everyone into his camp.\u00a0 It looks like he will spend the next 4 years in a vendetta against those who oppose him.\u00a0 Unfortunately, he has all the levers of power to help him do it.<\/p>\n
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What differentiates a wartime president from a peacetime one?\u00a0 The ability to use wartime powers to force unity.\u00a0 Here is a must-read article in the Bulwark by Jonathan V. Last.\u00a0 Caution:\u00a0 It is scary reading, as he outlines all of the real targets and strategies of Trump 2.0. Trump’s Real Agenda Is Trump just trying to get rid of illegal immigrants who are criminals?\u00a0 Or is he targeting mass deportations in very specific (Democrat) areas to crush opposition by targeted economic disruption? Read the article: Donald Trump is at War With America Takes notes.\u00a0 Much of this is sure to come to pass. Voters are told he will fix immigration.\u00a0 What they aren’t told is that “fixing” immigration is just a smokescreen to jolt the economies of states he didn’t win, strongholds of the opposition.\u00a0 He will fulfill his promise, but only in a targeted way.\u00a0 He’ll declare victory over immigration while at the same time ruining the economies of some blue states.\u00a0 Unfortunately for all of us, there will be unintended consequences, as there always are in most of these hairbrained plots.\u00a0 Hurting the economies of certain blue states will also ripple into the entire economy.\u00a0 Prices will rise […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mytrumpdiary.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mytrumpdiary.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mytrumpdiary.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mytrumpdiary.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mytrumpdiary.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mytrumpdiary.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87,"href":"https:\/\/mytrumpdiary.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions\/87"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mytrumpdiary.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mytrumpdiary.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mytrumpdiary.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}