1. United States
2. Md.
3. Letter

Make a plan to take the US back from the Oligarchy. China signed the world’s largest free-trade agreement with Japan and 14 other Asian nations. Canada and Mexico are organizing similar agreements with Europe and South America. The Supreme Court upheld the Constitution and definitively ruled: TARIFFS ARE TAXES. Everyone with a triple-digit I. Q. knows that consumers of commodities pay tariffs, not the manufacturer or the government in the country of origin. Every business in every country in the world knows this. But Donald Trump and Fascist Republicans continue to lie about it. Not only does Trump lack the legal authority to impose tariffs, he lacks the economic education, the diplomatic experience, the personal discipline, the honest reputation, and—most importantly—Donald Trump lacks the intellectual acuity to negotiate with Mark Carney of Canada, or Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico, or Xi Jinping of China. Xi Jinping has positioned China to assume economic leadership of the world when the United States becomes Trump’s seventh bankruptcy.