As US president Donald Trump amplifies his self-endowed role as the ‘Great Disruptor’, his bromance with billionaire ally, Elon Musk, seems to have begun to fray at the edges. There seems to be a swiftly escalating and fundamental divergence in the positions taken by Trump and Musk, with the former being a long-time proponent of tariffs, which he is using as a blunt instrument to redress what he sees as unfair terms of trade between the US and pretty much the rest of the world, and the latter cleaving to an equally firmly held belief in the absolute virtues of free trade, untrammelled by restrictions like tariffs. As Trump had his second coming, he drafted Musk, the right-wing industrialist who........

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