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Liberalism and the Surrender Trap

Don’t let Trump do to the Fed what he did to the FBI.

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Jonathan V. Last
Jul 23, 2025
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1. Resigned

Mohamed A. El-Erian is a respected figure in economics. He is neither a partisan nor a Trump supporter. Yesterday he argued that Jerome Powell should resign from the Fed in order to save the Fed.

His suggestion isn’t crazy.

But it is a form of misunderstanding that is marbled throughout all of institutional liberalism. And it is dangerous.

Today we’re going to talk about about how institutional liberalism has a Zero-Day Exploit, a hack built into its source code that Donald Trump has discovered.

I call it the Surrender Trap.

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