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title: "We can't expect economic sensibility from the Democrats. "Case in…"
date: 2025-09-30
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# We can't expect economic sensibility from the Democrats. "Case in…

*September 30, 2025 · Facebook*

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We can\'t expect economic sensibility from the Democrats.\
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\"Case in point: Rebecca Cooke, the Democrat challenging Republican incumbent Derrick Van Orden in Wisconsin's 3rd Congressional District, wants to pick a fight with the Trump administration over trade policy. Good idea: The Trump administration's trade policy is a gigantic slop bucket of amateurish buffoonery into which congressional Republicans have dived headlong, and the district Cooke would like to represent includes a bunch of soybean farmers who are getting absolutely hosed---for the second time---by Donald Trump's incompetence. Most informed observers would likely agree that a team of monkeys who graduated at the very bottom of their monkey community college class would probably produce a more intelligent and coherent policy.\"\
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\"When I talk to Democrats, they try to convince me that they are where I am on trade. But Democrats are not running on a free-trade platform. They are running on a platform of pretending that economic tradeoffs aren't real or that they can be magicked away with sufficient cleverness in policymaking and rhetoric.\"
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