"I talked to a Yale colleague called Amit Khandelwal yesterday, who has done really detailed research on ... what happened last time Trump brought in tariffs. And before he did this research, economists believed that if you put up tariffs, a lot of the cost would be borne by the producers."

#RoryStewart, 2025

https://alastaircampbell.org/2025/04/395-trump-xi-and-how-china-outsmarted-america/

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I certainly thought that was a possibility, and said so here a few times.

"[Conspiracy theories] can lead to disorder in lots of ways. They are disruptive ideas because they're accusing (usually) a centre of power - the establishment - of doing something bad. So it is a critique of the major institutions and the normal way of doing things.

At the same time they can be positive ..."

#JosephUscinski, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Miami, 2024

https://natoandtheged.substack.com/p/the-system-is-rigged-conspiracy-theories

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"When you think about who could replace Alexei [Navalny] and what the opposition could look like in the future. What is a model, or a way of understanding how, over the next five or ten years, people can challenge Vladimir Putin and create a different Russia?"

#RoryStewart, 2025

"It's not about person, it's about procedure."

#YuliaNavalnaya, 2025

https://alastaircampbell.org/2025/02/121-yulia-navalnaya-the-woman-who-could-bring-down-putin/

Good answer.

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