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Why the Tariff Chaos is so Fatal for Trump

Brendan Miller 241,709 2 weeks ago
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Go to https://ground.news/miller for a better way to stay informed. Subscribe for 40% off unlimited access to world-wide coverage through my link. ✉️ Get an email when I publish: https://brendanmiller.substack.com/ Also sign-up for paid tiers to get notes, links, reading recommendations and other goodies. 🦋 BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/brenkjm.bsky.social Ⓧ Twitter: https://x.com/brenkjm SOURCES: - "The People’s Choice by Lazarsfeld, Berelson, and Gaudet" (1948) noticed that partisans encountered congenial messages more often than uncongenial ones. - "The Effects of Mass Communication" Joseph Klapper (1960) https://archive.org/details/effectsofmasscom0000klap/page/18/mode/2up - "Theory of Cognitive Dissonance" published in 1957 by Leon Festinger - 62% own stocks https://news.gallup.com/poll/645107/stocks-gold-down-americans-best-investment-ratings.aspx - Small business troubles https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ryku3zw5wsf76ofvn4tjtx4s/post/3lmcjz76xws2n?ref_src=embed - FT graphs on unfavourable business news coverage and declining Trump support https://www.ft.com/content/26d15d7e-dd36-4ca1-b974-da8a57bce290 - “Network Propaganda” by Yochai Benkler et al. (2018) finds that in recent years the right-wing media ecosystem indeed shows greater insularity than the left’s. Their empirical mapping of online news during the 2016 election revealed a highly clustered conservative network relatively cut off from mainstream sources https://fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/academic/pdf/openaccess/9780190923624.pdf

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