Maybe there is actually a plan. Crater the stock market. If it drives interest rates down/flight to safety, great, refinance the debt. If rates go up and refinancing the debt becomes impossible with tax revenues falling in a recession and rates spiking, then great, the system is broken and they get to gut government, which seems to be the objective all along. Win win for everybody who is super wealthy and the rest of us get to make our way through whatever remains.

The day of the US financing everything and everybody else taking our dollars and buying our bonds while anyone who didn’t own major assets got screwed, this day was going to end sooner or later anyway. Ideally we would have transitioned to a new system, but entrenched intersts would never let that happen, or else it would have happened already. From what I’ve seen of human nature, conspiracies are almost impossible to execute if they involve more than one person, so I’m sleptical that there is a shadowy group behind this. That said, history and events seem to have a purpose or direction, kind of like a river, there’s no conspiracy to send the water in a particular direction, it follows gravity, but that is a direction. And history seems to like irony. Mad King Trump may be the perfect fall guy. The tarrifs are all him now, and when they crash the economy he will own it. maybe not right away, but over time. and then what? Things will have to be rebuilt, and that will probably follow the general nature and direction of American culture.