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It is likely worse. Much worse.

For anyone interested, here's an interview with Bob Lighthizer on what has been going on with global trade over the past few decades:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0IUh8kNSqY

I'd be interested in comments on what he has to say rather than attacks on his character and the usual shooting the messenger etc.

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Care to summarize his points? I hate youtube and especially hate rando video links from the internet.

Nope..it requires effort to understand things beyond partisan tropes.

For what it's worth, I would prefer to have a summary as well, rather than listening to Tucker Carlson and someone on his show for an hour and a half. I read his book, Ship of Fools, years ago and what I gathered was that he saw a lot of the same general negatives as the next person and made a lot of sense; but his solution was always an ethnostate, veiled or otherwise, to fix everything - or I suppose "immigration is the harm" and "people not like us", etc.

If there's useful information from what he says, I'd love to hear it, but I don't want to hear the other half again as it's exhausting.

I've never once heard Tucker Carlson frame an argument along the lines of protecting an ethnostate (if thats what you mean) and his contribution is minimal. The majority of the talking is done by Bob Lighthizer (as you'd expect given he is being interviewed).

I didn't realize I was only engaging using partisan tropes. Thank you for educating me.

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