US federal budget actuals and what they imply for the second Trump term

During the 2024 US Presidential campaign, and in its immediate aftermath, a lot of words were expended both by Trump himself, and especially by Trump’s newest billionaire ally, Elon Musk, on the subject of the federal budget deficit and how this could, or, more stridently, would, be remedied. The anti-China tariffs, for example, were supposed […]

Some of the major strategic failures of the Harris campaign and the Democratic Party

To be completely honest, I could probably have written a largely identical post a month ago, or even earlier. At that juncture, however, I would have come up against two valid counterpoints – that the polls were too close to call, meaning that it were still possible for my specific criticisms to end up as […]