Much of the routine trade and investment between China and America is entirely appropriate and in America’s interest. But inserting the Chinese Communist Party into America’s pay-to-play system and its economic development strategy isn’t just crossing a line. It’s a leap into an abyss of stupidity.
Of course JB is not being honest with IL. But that’s not why people are mad. People are mad because he’s a hypocrite of the worst kind, his family gets to relax and spend time at their mansions in Red States while the rest of us are forced to endure a lockdown in our blue state. And he’s arrogant about it too. “Let them eat cake or tend to their horses!” he says