Shock and awe from the wealthy class of politicians and press that Donald Trump could destroy their livelihoods, too

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6. yep, he's reveling in it

...and he has to be pleased to see so many falling into acceptance of it all, already at the stage of bargaining with the autocrat holding their money in this artificial abeyance.

The pleading chatter this afternoon is that the 'market' would accept the 10% across the board tariffs if he just held off implementing the retaliatory ones as he negotiates them with individual countries.

All of that could be avoided if these moneyed pols and pundits took to pressuring the republicans voluntarily allowing Trump to hide behind this fake emergency, obligingly usurping the Congress's own authority they solidly possess to set (or end) these tariffs which they refuse to exercise.