Source: The Dispatch
by Kevin D Williamson
“Fentanyl is a wonder drug. Not only is it useful for managing severe pain (e.g., for cancer patients and burn victims) but it also provides policy cover for … whatever. Donald Trump’s senior economic adviser, Kevin Hassett, knows that Trump’s tariff policy is dumb and destructive, and it is very difficult to make an economic case for it, so he insists that the tariffs are really part of a fentanyl interdiction policy. Trump would like to blame illegal immigrants for everything from heartbreak to psoriasis, and he reliably invokes fentanyl trafficking in his litany of immigration denunciations. The problem is that — as so often is the case with Trump and his sycophants — the facts do not quite line up with the story he would like to tell.” (04/18/25)
https://thedispatch.com/article/fentanyl-border-immigration-trump/