Well, that depends: what you see as left of center media might actually be rather centrist along some axes. To be frothing at the mouth in rage at tariffs identifies you as a globalist thinker of some 'neo' persuasion: neocon, or neoliberal. Either way, though you may disagree sharply on social issues you've got a shared committment to frictionless commerce over national boundaries in the belief that this will cause all the world to prosper (by all the world, you might mean 'the richest individuals and companies in any given country')
So, if that's your agenda, you (a) will hate tariffs whether they're proposed by Trump or a socialist like Bernie Sanders, and (b) you'll see to it that things are framed with the perspective that NO PERSON could possibly doubt the evilness of tariffs and the benevolence of maximally frictionless global trade.
You might even insist that nobody is actually trapped in a filter bubble about it, as there is no possibility that anyone can have an intelligent thought that DOESN'T embrace ultimately free trade. This position automatically forbids thinking about externalities or epiphenomena that arise from this embracing of trade across the widest possible market.
Hell, even the idea of 'market' is a filter bubble. Certainly the phrase 'Trump is unfairly maligned' used for any reason, is a filter bubble. I myself have to resist the tendency to react negatively just because of the association with the man, and would instead say: nah, he is fairly maligned because he's not approaching an 'anti-globalist' position for any constructive reason. In no way is he addressing the underlying mechanisms of the problem, he's just throwing sand in the gears. If it's a mechanism causing catastrophic damage, that alone might seem good, but we're gonna need better answers than just breaking stuff.
I would prefer to see something like unionization or communism break the ability to conduct labor arbitrage (not as an ultimate final goal, but as a counter-force to capital's ability to have things all its own way), but I do not think that's what Trump is up to. If he was, I'd say he was unfairly maligned too. Since he's not, I consider him fairly maligned .
> I would prefer to see something like unionization or communism break the ability to conduct labor arbitrage (not as an ultimate final goal, but as a counter-force to capital's ability to have things all its own way), but I do not think that's what Trump is up to. If he was, I'd say he was unfairly maligned too. Since he's not, I consider him fairly maligned .
You seem to be saying that Trump has an anti-globalist position, which is reasonable for a number of reasons, but he should still be maligned because he is not a communist. Is that actually what you're saying, or am I misreading it?
So, if that's your agenda, you (a) will hate tariffs whether they're proposed by Trump or a socialist like Bernie Sanders, and (b) you'll see to it that things are framed with the perspective that NO PERSON could possibly doubt the evilness of tariffs and the benevolence of maximally frictionless global trade.
You might even insist that nobody is actually trapped in a filter bubble about it, as there is no possibility that anyone can have an intelligent thought that DOESN'T embrace ultimately free trade. This position automatically forbids thinking about externalities or epiphenomena that arise from this embracing of trade across the widest possible market.
Hell, even the idea of 'market' is a filter bubble. Certainly the phrase 'Trump is unfairly maligned' used for any reason, is a filter bubble. I myself have to resist the tendency to react negatively just because of the association with the man, and would instead say: nah, he is fairly maligned because he's not approaching an 'anti-globalist' position for any constructive reason. In no way is he addressing the underlying mechanisms of the problem, he's just throwing sand in the gears. If it's a mechanism causing catastrophic damage, that alone might seem good, but we're gonna need better answers than just breaking stuff.
I would prefer to see something like unionization or communism break the ability to conduct labor arbitrage (not as an ultimate final goal, but as a counter-force to capital's ability to have things all its own way), but I do not think that's what Trump is up to. If he was, I'd say he was unfairly maligned too. Since he's not, I consider him fairly maligned .