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Photograph of the destroyed outer wall of the East Wing of the White House, being desecrated by Donald Trump for a vanity $200 million ballroom installation
Following are 11 Bluesky texts from Senator Chris Murphy. He posted overnight April 2/3, 2025 to explain what Trump's tariffs are really all about: Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naïve. No, tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 2/ This week you will read many confused economists and political pundits who won't understand how the tariffs make economic sense. That's because they don't. They aren't designed as economic policy. The tariffs are simply a new, super dangerous political tool. 3/ You see, our founders created a President with limited and checked powers. They specifically put the power of spending and taxation in the hands of the legislature. Why? Because they watched how kings and despots used spending and taxes to control their subjects. 4/ British kings used taxation to reward loyalty and punish dissent. Our own revolution was spurred by the King's use of heavy taxation of the colonies to punish our push for self-governance. The King's message was simple: stop protesting and I'll stop taxing. 5/ Trump knows that he can weaken (and maybe destroy) democracy by using spending and taxation in the same way. He is using access to government funds to bully universities, law firms and state and local governments into loyalty pledges. 6/ Healthy democracies rely on an independent legal profession to maintain the rule of law, independent universities to guard objective truth and provide forums for dissent to authority, and independent state/local government to counterbalance a powerful federal government. 7/ But the private sector also plays a rule to protect democracy. Independent industry has power. The tariffs are Trump's tool to erode that independence. Now, one by one, every industry or company will need to pledge loyalty to Trump in order to get sanctions relief. 8/ What could Trump demand as part of a quiet loyalty pled…
The Mirror reports that the Trump regime has deleted the nationwide police misconduct database set up after George Floyd’s murder