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it's beginning to look a lot like... 2008

Kind of, but I don't think there's any precedent for the world's most powerful economy performing seppuku.

The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 [1], where a Republican majority enacted extreme tariffs against President Hoover's almost veto, is sometimes considered one of the smoking guns for how the Great Depression got so bad. That's quite a precedent to be concerned about here.

(Though this version is dumber with the President trying to do it through EOs, which is probably illegal and Congress should probably be much more upset their powers to be stupid are being usurped before their eyes.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoot%E2%80%93Hawley_Tariff_Ac...

Bueller? Bueller?

People should have paid more attention

Well... if 2008 were an entirely self-inflicted wound caused by one malignant narcissist who believes himself to be a business genius despite the fact that his understanding of the global economy hasn't evolved since the 1980s or so (and it was already pretty shaky back then).

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