Excerpt - Richard Seymour on the US election and Trump redux (part two)
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Alright, so the next question comes from Clive who says, is Trump more or less likely than Biden had been to ramp up tensions with China? Not more or less, just differently. You know, Biden, we remember, criticised Trump for the tariffs on opposition. Once in office, he implemented them and escalated. It was under Biden that we got the moves to ban TikTok. It was under Biden that we got the hideous weather balloons fiasco, which is a form of cultural hysteria akin to the Havana syndrome.

Under Biden, we got escalation over Taiwan. Under Biden, we got the press meltdown over allegations that China created COVID-19. All this panic nationalism that was supposed to be a specialty of the Trump era was continued in a kind of neo-Cold War format under the Democrats. If you'd like to hear the rest of this episode of PTO Extra, then please consider becoming a £5 supporter of the show on Patreon. Go to patreon.com forward slash polltheoryother to sign up.