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    It’s one American in particular pushing it, so it’s a bit funny to use plural, but yes, he means it.

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        12 hours ago

        Yeah, there is that legal fiction, and typical way of looking at things, so it’s not an incorrect phrasing. It’s just kinda funny.

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      as article points out: that one person is supported by a whole class of Americans - the billionaires. And those in turn are supported by not insignificant portion of American population. So plural is very apropos here.

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        Pretty much all buisnesspeople hate the trade war, and trade protectionism in general.

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          businesspeople differ from billionaires in that they don’t get to impact policies and they don’t run multinationals milking both sides of the border

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          As is tradition.

          This isn’t even like an objective of the whole MAGA movement, though. Maybe they’ll manage to drum up more support over time, but right now, it’s the fuhrer’s vanity project. So, that doesn’t really count as “being serious about it”, for the rest of them.