I used to believe several things about the twenty-first century that Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and Donald Trump’s election in 2016 have shown me are false.
Everybody's ignoring the deeper structural reason for price increases: the concentration of the American economy into the hands of a few corporate giants with the power to raise prices.
His praise for the ruthless dictator should not surprise anyone—but the future implications if Trump runs and wins back the presidency must be fathomed.