Yup. US dollar is not the reserve currency because it’s attractive. It is the reserve currency because there simply is no alternative. There simply is no asset that can hold hundreds of trillions of dollar.

Let me tell you another irony.

Scott Bessent, Trump’s Treasury Secretary, worked for George Soros, and was one of the key architect for the attack on British Sterling. Go read the wikipedia on Bessent if you don’t believe me.

Germany got fascism out of the economic collapse.

Tariff is a consumption tax. The poorest spends most of their income on consumption like groceries, clothing, car parts, etc. The price of all of that is going up.

Next stockmarket wipeout reduces wealth of middle class the most, who in turn reduces spending on services that employee working class people.

Poorest always gets hit the hardest in any negative economic event because they are poor.

The voters deserve the government they choose. This includes those who abdicated their responsibility by not voting.

Military officer corp is easily the most non-political actors while the enlisted MAGA are diehards.