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With all respect: to pretend that a "historical overview lecture" delivered on 6 May 2025 by a well-known conservative business pundit[1], before the Heritage F
by ajross 1y ago
With all respect: to pretend that a "historical overview lecture" delivered on 6 May 2025 by a well-known conservative business pundit[1], before the Heritage Foundation, on the subject of "Tariffs in American History" ...
... is somehow completely objective and obviously unrelated to the giant shitstorm of contemporary US tariff policy is just laughable, sorry.
We both know what this is.
[1] The presentation might have fooled you, but John Steel Gordon is absolutely not an "economist" or "historian" in any professional sense.
- smitty1e 1y ago> We both know what this is. It's an historical overview. Was there a substantive rebuttal on offer, or just what sounds like innuendo?
- ajross 1y agoTIL "noting the author and forum of a lecture with clear political relevance" == "innuendo". The point isn't that he's wrong (though multiple people here are indeed pointing out things that are). It's that (1) his not being wrong doesn't remotely justify current policy and (2) who he is and where he spoke was very clearly intended to justify current policy. I mean, duh, as it were. I mean, please. Link me another dry historical lecture hosted by Heritage. I dare you. Everything they do is political.
- smitty1e 1y agoI specifically quoted the component of your reply that seemed to qualify as innuendo...and you attempt to shift the focus...