Applying Tariffs Properly, (Not Trumpically)

THE GOOD NEWS that SCOTUS had rear ended POTUS, had struck down El Trumpo's idiotic, precipitously and capriciously applied, unwisely conceived and implemented tariffs, filled me with great joy, as it must certainly have many others. All tariff policy should be carefully thought out, with constant and copious advice and guidance from experts, implemeted only with the greatest due considertaion, and targeted, very specifically, at specific industries and countries, for very real, expedient purposes, for economically beneficial reasons. They should not be implemented at the delusional whim of a mad petty tyrant throwing darts at a styrofoam target while admiring his orange hairpiece and thumbing through "Playboy". For some idiotic reason, contemporary American conservatism has taken up with the extremist, insane notion that there is no such thing as experts or expertise, that one citizen's answers are as good as any other conservative citizen's. Intellectual populism. Education level means nothing, and in fact only gets in the way of good, clear, conservative thinking by cluttering up the mind with a bunch of pseudo intellectul elitest nonsense. This attitude is a sort of warped, twisted, misguided understanding of what, precisely, "Populism" actually is. Populism, in a nutshell, is nothing other than the sacred principle that everybody has a right to participate in the public, town square conversation, to have and freely share his or her own thoughts, ideas, and imput, and to be listened to respectfully, if nothing else, if not with actual agreement. Populism is democracy from the ground up, not from the top down. We the people, the teeming masses of the land of economic exploitation of everything, are given, by our own insistence, the awesome responsibility of governing ourselves. Populism is no more intended as a declaration that all ideals and beliefs are created equal than deomocracy is meant to imply that all citizens, regardless of personal character or talent, are equally qualified to participate in popular goverment or to assume positions of political leadership. Herr Trump, with the full approval of SCOTUS, Congressional Republicans, and about half of the American people, has packed like sardines the U.S. Supreme Court with three hard right wing extremist conservatives, for the intended purpose of remaking the American legal in the image of far right wing conservative extremist ideologues. A pure neoliberal capitalist economic system, excluding all governent regulation. Christian nationalism. Mass deportations of the working dark colored working class. Unspoken but glaring, obviously implied: an American society which reverts to traditional but currently fading white Christian supremacy. Packing the high (on drugs?) Court, as well as the entire federal jusiciary, with flaming far right ideologues fashioned in the image of Rush Limbaugh's ghost, is a very real conspiracy, (see: Newt Gingrich, David Brock) dating back to the horror, shock, and outrage of Republicans when Obama was elected, an event which precipitated a secret gathering of the political right leadership in 2009. What they came up with was a strategy of fierce, unrelenting aggression. Obams's ascension scared American conservatism straight into the arms of the John Birch society, within whose comforting grasp it yet remains. Maybe sometime soon the Democrats will figure out that Ali beat Foreman not by rope-a-doping the entire fight, but rather, by coming out and fighting just about the time when Foreman, exhausted from his on savage attacks, was beginning to wear down.