A. Jon Butler
Nov 3 · 2 min read

Fair enough. Apology accepted. You said you wanted me to suffer, but I don’t take it personally. It makes sense if you’re wildly terrified by what I believe, and thus see me as a threat.

For the record my “school of thought” is just my own analysis. I don’t belong to or subscribe to any “school of thought” in any formal sense. I’m just one more isolated, alienated cis heterosexual white male who’s told over and over that he’s “privileged,” owes everyone, mustn’t have his own opinions, and that his penis makes him responsible for everything bad.

Unfortunately for your side, they’re making more and more of me every day, and there’s zero interest whatsoever in actually helping us or integrating us. We’re not a true minority who needs help — we’re “deplorable” and dangerous and I’m totally used to people gloating at my suffering. You were not the first.

If there’s going to be a social breakdown, it’s going to be led by the ever-growing horde of isolated people like me who don’t matter to the social justice calculation as anything but hated scapegoats.

Lucky for you, I’m not going to be in power anytime soon, and the biggest thrill I’m likely to get is voting for Trump. As for Trump … I remember very clearly three years ago, the morning after Trump was elected, I read this column by New York times economist Paul Krugman. Whenever I hear confident, dire predictions about the “school of thought” that elected Trump, I refer back to this article:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/cp/opinion/election-night-2016/paul-krugman-the-economic-fallout

It really does now look like President Donald J. Trump, and markets are plunging. When might we expect them to recover?

Frankly, I find it hard to care much, even though this is my specialty. The disaster for America and the world has so many aspects that the economic ramifications are way down my list of things to fear.

Still, I guess people want an answer: If the question is when markets will recover, a first-pass answer is never.

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……… we are very probably looking at a global recession, with no end in sight. I suppose we could get lucky somehow. But on economics, as on everything else, a terrible thing has just happened.

Paul Krugman is about as respected an authority as liberals have on economics. And he was BATSHIT WRONG about what was going to happen with Trump as president.

What followed his article was a huge economic rally, solid employment gains all around, and if you want to be as generous as possible to Democrats, Trump basically continued Obama’s great economy and made it better.

Today, three years later, liberals and elites are no less hysterical than that first day. But when they preach hellfire and brimstone today about Trump, I just have no faith. I see them all as fake, lying elites who will say whatever they think is most likely to keep them in power. At least with Trump, this is obvious.

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