Trump’s ‘Marie Antoinette moment’: call for national sacrifice falls flat

When Donald Trump announced this week that American children will have to make do with fewer toys at Christmas, unflattering comparisons were drawn to noted figures from history. “It sounded like Marie Antoinette saying ‘let them eat cake’,” said Whit Ayres, a Republican pollster. Economists and businessmen have been warning for weeks that the president’s…

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