The solution to where I was stuck, I saw, could be pretty much the same as the situation that got me going—an explosion instead of a plague, but still one quick, hard slash of the Gordian knot.
And this global tariff onslaught is seen as kind of a sword that will cut the Gordian knot, this very intertwined knot of the budget deficit, the bloated public sector, and an eroding industrial base.