Trump Has a Cluster-Bomb Approach to Policy
The collateral damage from the ICE raid on a Hyundai plant is yet another example of Trump’s counterproductive strategy.
Protesters stage a rally against the detention of South Korean workers during an immigration raid in Georgia near the U.S. Embassy in Seoul on Sept. 9. September 9, 2025, 12:51 PM Comment icon View Comments ( )
The U.S. government’s raid on a Hyundai battery plant for electric cars in Ellabell, Georgia, last week was the economic policy equivalent of a cluster bomb, one of the dumbest types of military munitions.
When cluster bombs explode, they indiscriminately kill humans within a given radius, regardless of whose side they are on in a conflict or whether they are civilian or soldier. And so it was with the rece