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Trump's Tariffs Aren't Economics. They're a Cultural Purge | Washington Monthly

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Trump's Tariffs Aren't Economics. They're a Cultural Purge | Washington Monthly

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    This is the vision: take NIH scientists, coders, artists, researchers, and teachers and force them into low-wage jobs doing whatever robots can’t yet do. Not because it’s efficient. Not because the work isn’t valuable. But because they are who the far right considers dangerous—people who know how the system works—and might challenge it.