Breathing Is Good Even if Trump Does It
From the Tom Woods Letter:
Yesterday Donald Trump said he’d like to meet with Chinese and Russian leaders and work out an agreement for all of them to cut their military budgets by 50 percent.
I don’t know if that will happen or not. I do know that no president of either party has spoken like that in my lifetime (though of course Ronald Reagan made important moves toward arms control, fearing the truly dreadful possibility of an inadvertent nuclear exchange).
And here’s what I also know: at this point the left is so unreasonable (and so busy making sure nobody’s federal sinecure gets cut) that they probably can’t bring themselves to back even something they themselves have pretended to support for years, now that Trump also supports it.
I can already hear the left’s lament: won’t anyone think of defense-industry profits!
It’s so bad that Congressman Ro Khanna actually had to say:
“I support the effort to find a trilateral agreement with China and Russia to mutually draw down bloated military budgets. We should not oppose efforts to reduce military spending and work towards peace just because it is proposed by Trump.”
Again, if we were dealing with mentally well people, it would not have been necessary to say that.
Another thing happened yesterday: the swearing in of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., as secretary of the Department of Heal
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