democrats. they are paralyzed in thinking about the u.s. role in the global economy. and i think in many ways, they are failing to represent who their coalition is today, they re kind of driving, you know, by looking through the rearview mirror mirrat what the coalition used to be 30, 40 years ago. i don t think anybody s looking at the big picture. i think you just nailed it. each side is looking at who they re going to protect and the big picture is this could affect the country in a very derogatory manner and we re not looking at that big picture. those kind of tariffs could kill the auto industry, can kill a lot of other industries down the road. and if you don t look at that, i think that and you re busy protecting a base, then you re doing the country a disservice. and that s happening on the democrats and the republican side. so real confusion about the motivation behind, you know, the decisions behind, you know, this president. so if it s confusing outside looking in, you
ago. we are at their party, where they re going to be celebrating, they think, victory, but what s clear is that no single party will be able to get 40% of the vote. and therefore, some sort of coalition is inevitable. we have there is a coalition of the right, including berlusconi s force italia, but political coalitions in italy are even less than marriages of convenience. they re almost one-night stands. so the coalitions during the campaign can easily fall apart afterwards, when there s going to be a lot of horse trading, but what is clear is that there is a very strong populist, anti-establishment sentiment in this country, which really spans the political spectrum. italians are angry, for instance, that the italian economy hasn t really grown much