The argument that "original" Trumpians (like Steven Bannon) got this crisis right ignores a simpler explanation: The "original" Trumpians are (mostly) catastrophists with a taste for the apocalyptic and thus see disaster over every hill. 1/x https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/03/why-some-early-maga-adopters-went-against-trumps-virus-doctrine">https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020...

Doubt that? Look at what Bannon was saying c.2010. Or consider that Bannon has long been a fan of a bullshit bit of Nostradamus that says there will be a war worse than any ever before in 2020. Of course he saw doom coming. He always sees doom coming. #6f339fe24682">https://www.forbes.com/sites/stratfor/2017/08/17/the-apocalyptic-vision-of-stephen-k-bannon/ #6f339fe24682">https://www.forbes.com/sites/str...

Here& #39;s some more insight into Bannon& #39;s "insight." https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/steve-bannon-apocalypse_n_5898f02ee4b040613138a951?ri18n=true">https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/ste...

The idea that Bannon et al "called" this crisis is eerily similar to the claim, which was hugely popular c.2010, that Peter Schiff "called" the 2008/09 crisis. What everyone ignored was that Schiff said pretty much the same thing, year after year after year. 4/x

In fact, when I dug into Schiff& #39;s work for my book, Future Babble, I discovered he credited his understanding of economics to his father. So I looked into his father and discovered... him saying the same thing year after year after year all the way back to the Nixon era! 5/x

But, hey, maybe the Schiff& #39;s were just WAY ahead of the curve. So what happened since then? Schiff was briefly a rockstar on TV, c.2010, and he warned over and over of the coming ... hyperinflation. You remember the hyperinflation of 2012, right? Right?! 6/x