Tyler Cowen has a new post entitled:
Who gains and loses status from the war in Ukraine?
Among the names mentioned is former president Obama, who famously dismissed Mitt Romney’s warnings about Putin back in 2012. (BTW, over the past decade has any American politician been right about more things than Mitt Romney?)
One name conspicuously missing from Tyler’s post is Donald Trump. At first glance that might seem like an oversight. Even as Putin brutalizes Ukraine, Trump’s embrace of the murderous dictator becomes ever tighter:
But Tyler did not ask who should lose status, he asked who would lose status. Trump’s reputation among rational people is already at rock bottom, and his unseemly love affair with Putin can’t make it any worse. As for his supporters, Trump once claimed that he could shoot someone in the middle of Times Square and his supporters would stick with him. So Tyler is right not to single out Trump as one of the people who will lose status over the Ukraine war.
PS. I really envy the Trumpistas, who can tell the truth without all the tiresome complaints that they suffer from TDS. Here’s Peter Navarro, accurately describing Donald Trump:
Please, no more “tedious” accusations (pun intended), I’m just reporting what Navarro said.