alt Hacker News> What still baffles me is how people act like this was some kind of thoughtful decision.
I'm afraid it is. An unholy coalition of capitalist-anarchists and ultra-conservatives is the driving force behind it. They both want to reduce the influence of the government to a level as small as possible. That can only be done by dismantling the current federal government.
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That's what really blows my mind. Growing up as Reagan Republican. When did Republicans go from law-and-order, to anarchists?
Traditionally anarchism is a left-liberal idea. Now the far-right is same as far-left. Left-Right is now a circle.
Capitalist-anarchists are certainly opposed to tariffs - after all, tariffs are just taxes that expand government influence. Protectionism is a left-wing, big-government policy.
> An unholy coalition of capitalist-anarchists and ultra-conservatives is the driving force behind it.
It's called Oligarchy.
Dismantling the federal government by massively increasing the role of government in trade and imposing the biggest tax increase in a century?
That doesn't sound right...