Sabre-Rattling and Bully Economics

Or, Why we need to be careful when reading sensational political announcements

This is going to be another of my tedious media literacy posts.

But if you’d like something lighter, please feel free to peruse the Reddit forum r/LeopardsAteMyFace, a community where examples are posted of people expressing shock when a group they support does something that hurts them personally. There are a lot of GOP-voters in posts these days: farme…