Rand Paul: "The whole [tariffs] debate is so fundamentally backwards & upside down. It's based on a fallacy & the fallacy is this: that somehow in a trade, someone must lose. That somehow when you trade with someone, someone is taking advantage of you… I have a trade deficit with my grocery store"
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-04-08T16:13:12.367Z
It scares me when Rand Paul’s the only one making sense
But that’s exactly Trump in itself! ‘The Art of the Deal” is for Drumpf, any bargain any trade must be a zero sum game, which is contradictory to any rational concept of trade, and can only be executed in authoritarian situations or else markets so large you can find continually new suckers.