Starting a trade war is just stupid. But maybe Trump simply doesn’t really care about tanking the economy. On this show, Washington Monthly politics editor Bill Scher points out that the current president appears to be trying to steer America back to the economics of the late 19the century, when corporate titans ruled. Meanwhile the Democratic Party is not at all united, and is enabling this destructive trade war. Yes there are weeds but Scher helps us walk through them.