Tariffs, storytelling and the cult of personality

Is there a lesson about public discourse we can wrest from our current moment of intransigent bullheaded politics?

While trying to decide between an American lager or dive into my limited stockpile of Mexican Tequila to make a Paloma, I began to wonder what, exactly, I was being “liberated” from with the Trump Administration’s avalanche of new tariffs.

I decided on making the Paloma because I’m a supposedly evil globalist who revels in using foreign products. Also, b…