My key point is the people involved aren’t doing analysis. They are NPCs just like the worst ideologues on the left; it’s just that their brain worms are that g

My key point is the people involved aren’t doing analysis. They are NPCs just like the worst ideologues on the left; it’s just that their brain worms are that goods trade deficits are bad and some sort of theft. You’re coming to wrong theories about what their intent is because you’re assuming they’re reasoning.