Fitz File

               The United States once again will have Donald Trump as its President.  This time, he will have even fewer legal guardrails, fewer inhibitions, and a far more pliable Congress to do his bidding.  This means we, as a country, need to take his policy proposals from the campaign trail and Project2025 even more seriously than usual.  Unfortunately, lying is just part of Trump’s playbook, but one move he’s extremely likely to make is the imposition of sweeping tariffs. It’s no new claim that Donald Trump may not always know what he's talking about.  From his famously bungled answer on the nuclear triad in 2015 to his bizarre ramblings on I.V.F., Trump has shown very little openness to new information, often claiming “no one knew” something that everyone else does know.  Today, I want to focus on the reader: Trump’s current “magic bullet” for economic success is imposing tariffs, yet I have yet to see a report...

        Election day in the US was not exactly what I expected.  Donald Trump, a convicted felon who led a violent attempt to invade Congress and disrupt the peaceful transfer of power, was swept back into office with a comfortable margin.  The entire federal government will likely be controlled by the party utterly devoted to Trump.  While Kamala Harris ran a very good campaign, it is clear there are larger systematic forces at work that are even more concerning.  Even if Donald Trump does not move forward with all of the terrible ideas he proposed on the campaign, that he has won by such a wave shows a dangerous undercurrent in our country.  For the sake of all the world, I dearly hope this is simply a result of the unusual magnetism of Trump and not a greater trend towards three primary ideals.           The first potential issue is the state of our information sector and the fractious nature of medi...