For more on the Doctrine of High Wages and the industrializing economic strategy of the American School, see Michael Hudson’s book ‘America’s Protectionist Takeoff, 1815-1914: The Neglected American School of Political Economy.’

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If it simply serves us and our close allies in our need for manageable information about the new Trumpian moment, it will have met its purpose, although we are curious to see whether it might reach a wider audience – our tag-line is “We Read The News So You Don’t Have To!”

With “Tracking the Crisis” we aim to release ourselves and our allies from the debilitating cycle of reactivity to the constant outrage-manufacturing machine, ensuring we keep abreast of developments but aren’t paralyzed or overwhelmed.

Steve Bannon has been open about this as a strategy: “All we have to do is flood the zone. Every day, we hit them with three things. They’ll bite on one, and we’ll get all of our stuff done, bang, bang, bang. These guys will never be able to recover, but we got to start with muzzle velocities.”

“Tracking the Crisis” was born of a recognition that part of what we are witnessing is a deliberate strategy to disorient and overwhelm people with the scale of the current political onslaught.

The ‘centre left’—increasingly aggro-centrist and anti-left—faces a series of deserved extinction-level events in the deepening crises ahead, and it’s imperative that we sever our ties with these liabilities and establish a separate left-populist pole of political attraction offering an alternative.

This kleptocratic looting and smashing of America’s federal government will turn out to be as significant as Pinochet-era Chile or post-Soviet firesale privatisation, which gave rise to Russia’s oligarchy. Given that we’re unlikely to go back, where’s the left’s post-Trump theory of the state?