"Because in Trump's world, peace is weakness, cooperation is betrayal, and suffering is sacred. April 2nd isn't a policy milestone. It’s a rally. It’s Ash Wednesday for the faithful. It's meant to be remembered like a national baptism, a reboot of American strength as defined by how much punishment we're willing to take.

Liberation Day is a lie. But lies, when repeated with spectacle and certainty, have power.

The global community cannot meet that lie with polite disagreement. We need to drag it into the light and expose its rot. This isn't the New Deal. This isn’t even Reaganomics. This is a movement willing to burn the economy just to watch the smoke rise behind a flag.

There's no negotiating with that. There's only resisting it—tariff by tariff, myth by myth, lie by lie. The more we normalize this performance, the more we validate the ritual. And the longer the global community lets America build its religion of pain, the more we risk becoming converts without even realizing it."
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