Calls to activate the anti-coercion instrument in response to Trump’s latest tariff threat are well-founded. The evidence suggests Europe will again stop short
Ignacio García Bercero, a former senior European Commission trade official, said failure to deploy the ACI – which he noted could allow retaliation “within weeks” under a so-called “urgency procedure” – would point to deeper institutional dysfunction.
The “institutional dysfunction” has been evident to leftists around the world for decades. America has been on the path to fascism for over 50 years, and has pulled the world down with it in an endless race to the bottom. America has been exporting their fascist propaganda using their mainstream media, social media, and big tech companies since the creation of Fox News. Now the entire “democratic” world faces existential economic and national security threats from domestic Nazi parties, as well as directly from American technological, military, commercial, and industrial infiltration.
We should all blame our own political and economic leaders for selling us out and solidifying these vulnerabilities. For helping construct big brother. But no, neoliberal parasites will weasel out of most of the blame, probably also blaming “the left”.
My hot take is that at the same time, our “institutional dysfunction” has been what has protected us from going all the way down the path to fascism. Strong leaders that get things done quickly usually aren’t great for democracy.
The “institutional dysfunction” has been evident to leftists around the world for decades. America has been on the path to fascism for over 50 years, and has pulled the world down with it in an endless race to the bottom. America has been exporting their fascist propaganda using their mainstream media, social media, and big tech companies since the creation of Fox News. Now the entire “democratic” world faces existential economic and national security threats from domestic Nazi parties, as well as directly from American technological, military, commercial, and industrial infiltration.
We should all blame our own political and economic leaders for selling us out and solidifying these vulnerabilities. For helping construct big brother. But no, neoliberal parasites will weasel out of most of the blame, probably also blaming “the left”.
My hot take is that at the same time, our “institutional dysfunction” has been what has protected us from going all the way down the path to fascism. Strong leaders that get things done quickly usually aren’t great for democracy.