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The wider Trump administration, and Musk in particular for his DOGE work which has included firing regulatory enforcers.

bloppe 1y ago
The wider Trump administration is extremely anti-free-market. They're very explicit about it. The Republican party is nothing like it used to be.
- sjsdaiuasgdia 1y ago
  The Republican party only persists as a name. The Trump party has long subsumed it.
  - bloppe 1y ago
    That's always been a feature of the 2-party system. I mean, the Democrats were once the party of southern white supremacists. We don't really get new parties, but the parties we have change over time as the coalitions within them rearrange. I think a multi-party parliamentary system would be better at finding middle ground, but it's silly to say that the two-party system keeps politics "fixed".
    - sjsdaiuasgdia 1y ago
      True, the make-up and priorities of both Republicans and Democrats have changed a few times over the years. I would say that in this case, it's a party aligning to an individual far more than it has ever been in the past. Racist Southern Democrats didn't become Republicans because they were enamored with a Republican leader, they changed parties because they found themselves misaligned with the Democratic Party's pivot to civil rights. I wholeheartedly agree that a parliamentary system would serve the US better.
loeg 1y ago
The tariffs are literally just Trump and 2-3 cronies.
mrweasel 1y ago
In terms of tariffs you're normally either a "protectionist" or for "free trade". That's sort of the two sides of that argument. There is some middle ground, but those are the extremes. It is not really related to regulations, that's more if you believe that the market is able to regulate itself, in terms of environmental impact, fair wages, safety and those sorts of things. The latter is the things which are impacted by firing regulatory enforces, or removing regulation altogether. The Trump administration seems to run a protectionist policy, with a deregulated home market. This will hurt exports as it makes products more expensive, but also less likely to be able to comply with the regulations of other markets, e.g. in the EU, which is heavily regulated. US companies have a reduced incentive to comply with EU rules, if they know they have a protected market at home they can milk instead.

bloppe 1y ago

The wider Trump administration is extremely anti-free-market. They're very explicit about it. The Republican party is nothing like it used to be.

sjsdaiuasgdia 1y ago
The Republican party only persists as a name. The Trump party has long subsumed it.
- bloppe 1y ago
  That's always been a feature of the 2-party system. I mean, the Democrats were once the party of southern white supremacists. We don't really get new parties, but the parties we have change over time as the coalitions within them rearrange. I think a multi-party parliamentary system would be better at finding middle ground, but it's silly to say that the two-party system keeps politics "fixed".
  - sjsdaiuasgdia 1y ago
    True, the make-up and priorities of both Republicans and Democrats have changed a few times over the years. I would say that in this case, it's a party aligning to an individual far more than it has ever been in the past. Racist Southern Democrats didn't become Republicans because they were enamored with a Republican leader, they changed parties because they found themselves misaligned with the Democratic Party's pivot to civil rights. I wholeheartedly agree that a parliamentary system would serve the US better.

loeg 1y ago

The tariffs are literally just Trump and 2-3 cronies.

mrweasel 1y ago

In terms of tariffs you're normally either a "protectionist" or for "free trade". That's sort of the two sides of that argument. There is some middle ground, but those are the extremes. It is not really related to regulations, that's more if you believe that the market is able to regulate itself, in terms of environmental impact, fair wages, safety and those sorts of things. The latter is the things which are impacted by firing regulatory enforces, or removing regulation altogether. The Trump administration seems to run a protectionist policy, with a deregulated home market. This will hurt exports as it makes products more expensive, but also less likely to be able to comply with the regulations of other markets, e.g. in the EU, which is heavily regulated. US companies have a reduced incentive to comply with EU rules, if they know they have a protected market at home they can milk instead.