Led By Fools<p>Kings and despots historically used spending and taxes (tariffs) to control their subjects, to reward loyalty and punish dissent.</p><p>Tariffs are a means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition would-be-king Trump for relief. </p><p>He is using access to government funds to bully universities, law firms and state and local governments into loyalty pledges.</p><p>Relief will come to industry and institutions that pledge loyalty (fealty).</p><p>Trumps strategy. is from the playbook for democratically elected leaders who want to stay in power forever.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoKings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoKings</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoDespots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoDespots</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Kings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kings</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Despots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Despots</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/tax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tax</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/taxes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>taxes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/tariff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tariff</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tariffs</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/loyalty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>loyalty</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/dissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dissent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/university" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>university</span></a></p>