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>>herber+(OP)
Dems just need to spin these tariffs as the largest tax increase in US history (which is basically correct).

>>sender+w6
It's also a tax on everyone, to the benefit of large corporations which can now increase prices / decrease value), due to less competition.

>>mmooss+D9
Which is one of the reasons the countries with high tariffs have had worse economy overall and specifically much worse than the US economy. The higher your tariffs the worse the protected industry and the whole economy.

>>trhway+bh
Yes - with free trade, the US is the wealthiest economy in the history of the world. Economic research says it works. What is the reasoning for throwing it away?

I hear the nonsense reasoning from the Trump crowd, but many know it's nonsense even as they say it. What is their real goal here?

>>mmooss+yn
I wish I knew. Nothing I hear from that crowd makes any actual sense except one thing: they have developed such a seething hatred for more than half of their fellow citizenry that they're willing to destroy the entire country, including themselves, just to hurt them.

But that also makes no real sense. So I don't know.

>>JohnFe+yu
> they have developed such a seething hatred for more than half of their fellow citizenry that they're willing to destroy the entire country, including themselves, just to hurt them.

That is the people following (speaking very generally). The leaders are leading people in that direction for a reason.

>>mmooss+rw
Yeah, I agree. But what is that reason?

>>JohnFe+sz
Ruling out money - though domestic companies can cash in from the lack of competition, and it fits the current model of building businesses with large 'moats' so you can enshittify charge rent-extracting prices.

The other usual option is power. I think it's clear that these people will do anything, go to any extreme for power. What is the path from these tarriffs. It's also possible that they made a mistake.

In a different thread I speculated that their plan is to blame their enemies and objects of hatred for the results: >>43575061

But it seems like they need a positive result from this?