{"id":23244,"date":"2026-10-20T16:47:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T16:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=23244"},"modified":"2026-10-20T16:47:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T16:47:20","slug":"trumpism-is-backfiring-the-ezra-klein-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=23244","title":{"rendered":"Trumpism Is Backfiring | The Ezra Klein Show"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump&#8217;s aggressive rhetoric, threats of territorial conquest and ending countries&#8217; existence, and trade wars, against allies, has led to US allies organizing more of their economies around the US, which weakens the US and makes Americans poorer. Trump&#8217;s actions have also limited his influence on allies. These actions put Trump&#8217;s misguided ideas first, and America last.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When you bully and act aggressively, other countries may not retaliate in the moment, but they do work to weaken you and become more robust to your attacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Such Trump aggression has increased China&#8217;s power, prestige, and popularity, while lowering those of the US. The CCP is an evil dictatorship, but at least they are predictable, unlike erratic Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Democracies around the world have been weakened because foreigners trying to maintain democracy in their country relied on the US for pushback against the breaking of democratic rules.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Trumpism Is Backfiring | The Ezra Klein Show\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pDZ7BaZDoe8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump&#8217;s aggressive rhetoric, threats of territorial conquest and ending countries&#8217; existence, and trade wars, against allies, has led to US allies organizing more of their economies around the US, which weakens the US and makes Americans poorer. Trump&#8217;s actions have also limited his influence on allies. These actions put Trump&#8217;s misguided ideas first, and America last. <\/p>\n<p>When you bully and act aggressively, other countries may not retaliate in the moment, but they do work to weaken you and become more robust to your attacks. <\/p>\n<p>Such Trump aggression has increased China&#8217;s power, prestige, and popularity, while lowering those of the US. The CCP is an evil dictatorship, but at least they are predictable, unlike erratic Trump. <\/p>\n<p>Democracies around the world have been weakened because foreigners trying to maintain democracy in their country relied on the US for pushback against the breaking of democratic rules. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/youtu.be\/pDZ7BaZDoe8?is=rp1FOg6E1iwamqCW <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[293,89,431,221,217,165,272,355,314,226,32,313,227,170],"class_list":["post-23244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-canada","tag-china","tag-democracy","tag-donald-trump","tag-economics","tag-economy","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-international-relations","tag-trade","tag-trade-agreement","tag-trade-deal","tag-trade-war","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23245,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23244\/revisions\/23245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}