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A characteristically thoughtful, balanced discussion, Melanie. Your background in finance dwarfs mine, so I’ll dare to say only that I share Batya’s view of the matter: had I not been fortunate enough to get on the middle-class real estate escalator over 40 years ago, starting with a $39,000 house in Idaho, I’d have very few assets in my old age that might hold their value. As you probably recall, I was a Pat Buchanan / Donald Trump anti-globalist populist at the time we met, focused far more on cultural issues than economic ones, so from every perspective I embrace the “Liberation Day” theme. Trump is endeavoring not so much as to take us to The Promised Land as to RETURN us to the one that has been gradually, steadily stolen from the forgotten man. The “tyrant” characterization has always struck as simply wrong; if this were 17th-century England, he might have become an Oliver Cromwell, but in this American republic, he’s less of a tyrant than Abraham Lincoln proved to be in many respects.

Anyway, thanks for your open mindedness. We don’t need more “Panicans” 😆.

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