Is the USA Kneecapping China?

The factory of the world has suddenly found itself without customers.

“No surprises” is the motto of the franchise ghetto, its Good Housekeeping seal, subliminally blazoned on every sign and logo that make up the curves and grids of light that outline the Basin. The people of America, who live in the world’s most surprising and terrible country, take comfort in that motto. Follow the lo-glo outward, to where the…