There’s a psychosexual dimension to Trump’s tariffs. You don’t have to be Freud to see it
When they bought into Trump, the tech bros were purchasing his whole grotesquely inflated persona – every whim, every craze, every dark fantasy. They deserve what they get – the rest of the world doesn’t
Donald Trump: It would be overstating it to say the great tariff debacle that sent stock and bond markets into a spin was an old man’s substitute for sexual predation. But only slightly. Photograph: Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images
