Trump Wants to Make Exceptional the System of Pesos and Counterweights that Characterizes a Democracy

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The U.S. economy is like a giant $30 trillion freighter that is hard to sink into. Eight months after its arrival in the White House, Donald Trump has not managed to do so with his political testoteronics, but has diverted it from its path. The OECD has just said so in its semi-annual forecasts: if with Biden the economy grew by 2.8% now it does so to 1.8%, and it is expected that in 2026 it will only grow by 1.6%; then inflation was 2.5%, at th…