Source: The Dispatch
by Kevin D Williamson
“As I have been writing for some time, Donald Trump’s most fundamental character flaw — his laziness — has been his country’s saving grace, at least at times. Trump is an aspiring caudillo whose political models are Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, and a would-be tyrant who attempted to stage a coup d’état after losing the 2020 election to a barely sentient Joe Biden — but, as bad as he was and is, he could have been and could be a great deal worse if not for the fact that he is unbelievably lazy, a Fox News-watching, social-media-addicted couch potato of a chief executive who might have wielded the levers of power to greater malevolent effect if he had bothered to work at his craft a little bit. But the so-called reciprocal tariffs are shockingly lazy even by Trumpian standards.” (04/04/25)
https://thedispatch.com/article/trump-tariffs-lazy-trade-deficit/