{"id":135055,"date":"2017-10-10T18:32:53","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T00:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=135055"},"modified":"2017-10-11T08:56:25","modified_gmt":"2017-10-11T14:56:25","slug":"men-just-want-watch-world-burn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/10\/men-just-want-watch-world-burn.html","title":{"rendered":"“Some men just want to watch the world burn”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why would Donald Trump impose tariffs on imported solar panels, when even conservative groups like the Heritage Foundation think is awful policy?<\/p>\n

Because he can.<\/p>\n

Because then he’s imposing tariffs and can tell his base that he’s sticking it to those unfair foreigners and all their dumping and job stealing, even if it does nothing to bring jobs to the US.<\/p>\n

And because then he can say to his coal-mining buddies, “See? People said coal was dying because the economics weren’t there. Well, now you owe me.”<\/p>\n

And because for him it’s flipping a big middle finger at all the tree-hugging, climate-change-believing, pussy liberals he so despises and whose outrage he’ll relish as a sign that he’s the biggest alpha dog in the pack and can piss on anything he wants.<\/p>\n

It’s not about policy. It’s never about policy. It’s about ego.<\/p>\n


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\nTrump Is About to Stifle U.S. Solar Power. Why?<\/a><\/span>
\nHe\u2019ll also hamper the fight against climate change.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Why would Donald Trump impose tariffs on imported solar panels, when even conservative groups like the Heritage Foundation think is awful policy? Because he can. 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