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Originally Posted by direwolf
Lutnick is meeting today with LeBlanc and Ford at the WH. I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re looking for an off-ramp of some kind to give them an excuse to roll back some of the tariffs but then still be able to sell it to the public that Trump got a win to soothe his ego.
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That's Trump 1.0 talk. A time when despite his lunacy there was experienced and to some extent competent politicians and staff surrounding him to keep things from completely disintegrating. Also was at a time when Republican Senators & Congressmen were somewhat capable of breaking with Trump on important enough items. Trump 2.0 staff are stacked with incompetent 'yes' people selected purely for loyalty for the very reason of pushing forward with his commands despite the chaos. Additionally no republican lawmaker is willing to split from Trump for fear being primaried by Musk.
Effectively there are no guardrails to the whims of someone who refuses to take or acknowledge a 'L'. The only thing stopping him is if he crashes the metaphorical car spectacularly enough it forces him to stop. Personally I just hope it's short term economic recession/depression and/or stock market meltdown that does it, before he uses the military and do damage the US can't really come back from post-Trump.