Let me not faction's partial hate
Pursue to this land's woe
Nor grasp the thunder of the state
To wound a private foe

From Thomas Paine's The American Patriot's Prayer

"The love of money as a possession [is] a somewhat disgusting morbidity, one of those semicriminal, semi-pathological propensities which one hands over with a shudder to the specialists in mental disease." John Maynard Keynes

The protectionist effects of tariffs are dependent on domestic price increases to give competitive advantage to domestic production; tariffs as a source of government revenue depend on continuing imports. Inasmuch as protection succeeds, tariff revenue vanishes and conversely.

I just finished reading Character Limit by Kate Conger and Ryan Mac. The expression on the face of the seal at left is an appropriate comment on the book.

Gramsci: “The old world is dying and the new one struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters.”

Yes, monsters.

What is the difference between a gang and a militia?

To walk through the employee entrance past the guards meant leaving a democracy and entering an authoritarian enclave where the presence of a union bureaucracy, albeit purged of its more democratic elements during the McCarthy Era, was the only source of rights and justice.

Elon Musk is a socialist. Within, his companies are managed to serve the interests of the owners and of the managers themselves, not by market competition or representative democracy. They are authoritarian socialist, Lenninist-Stalinist. For more see Elizabeth Anderson's Private Government.