This is the shot. Takaichi's statement is the chaser.
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Tin Pot Dictator Machine

Bravo!

Exactly! It's why choosing not to distort one's own market in response to mercantilist trading partners is typically optimal.

Trump policy choices imply that Japan and Germany made better trade policy than the US over the past few decades. But observed performance suggests otherwise.

D>G>C>B>A>E>F>H

In the minds of Japanese voters, Sanseito's anti-foreigner position is likely much weaker than Sanseito's position on reducing the consumption tax. But foreign media focused on the former.

Hi Tobias, This is a major contrast to the post-war pattern in which the LDP outperformed as turnout rose. This pattern combined with an increasingly younger electorate will make the next lower house contest interesting.

I feel this standard continues a long practice in social science of undervaluing replication relative to other sciences. Replication should be at least as strongly embraced by social sciences, probably more so.

Clinton would be in her second term.

Indeed, in this case it’s remembered not forgotten.

Wasn't that pre-WW2 Republican isolationism? Western hemisphere plus Philippines.

American conservatism was great when it was classically liberal and pragmatic. Reagan moved against pragmatism. Trump moved against classical liberalism. Now the Republican Party's preferences are back to where they were pre-WW2: isolationist plutocracy, and employing state power toward that end.

So you claim whataboutism is providing comparative context and evaluating the alternative situations. Why do you reject this?