I appreciate the referenced WSJ article writing this below a string of several markets all listed in red. It adds a decorative flair.

“Central America” is in North America. Racists just pretend it’s not so they don’t have to mentally grapple with brown people natively being on the same continent as themselves.

It’s hard to imagine anyone in the US doing things or not doing things under fear of “political backlash”. How many dozens of red lines, like Roe v Wade, Doge layoffs, Beautiful Bill cuts, ICE rounding up citizens and examining their social media for thought crimes etc., have there been where people warned that there would be riots in the streets and a general strike that would halt the economy? When those lines were crossed, there were a couple half-hearted protest marches on the weekend that practically swept up the streets behind themselves so that if you were five minutes late, you wouldn’t even know they were there.

But now you’re telling me THIS is one? THIS being something every liberal has to preface their comments with “while Trump shouldn’t have gone to war, the Iranian regime needs to be put down – who kills fifty thousand of their own people??” THAT’S the one he’s supposedly worried about blowback over? The one where they’re agreed on the killing but a little more cost-effectively if you wouldn’t mind?