In today’s Both Sides Of, renowned Nobel Prize of Economics winner Jonathan Johannssen squares off against our columnist Brownshirt, a feces, blood and semen-coated paper tissue found in Hitler’s bunker, on the subject of tariffs.
Johannssen: Tariffs implemented under the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act clearly worsened the Great Depression, and strained relationships with other countries beyond the realm of trade. There’s no good example of-
Brownshirt: Are you a jew?
Johannssen: Not that it matters, but no. Rationalize why you think tariffs are an effective tool.
Brownshirt: Man looks in the abyss, there’s nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.
Johannssen: I don’t know how to-
Brownshirt: Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight?
Johannssen: Are you quoting from the Batman mov-
Brownshirt: We didn’t start the fire. It was always burning, since the world’s been turning.
Johannssen: What’s with all the 80s references?
Brownshirt: I must break you.