Republicans have now introduced a tariff on every country, to the detriment of free trade worshippers like Larry Kudlow and now they are considering hiking taxes on the wealthy.
Were Republican voters and donors duped ?
Why are they now copying left wing policy ?
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Republicans have now introduced a tariff on every country, to the detriment of free trade worshippers like Larry Kudlow and now they are considering hiking taxes on the wealthy.
Were Republican voters and donors duped ?
Why are they now copying left wing policy ?
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This is just what they want, and what they voted for. They weren’t tricked. They’re just idiots who want dumb bullshit.
Not on every country. There are no tarrifs on Russia, Belarus and North Korea, while there are tarrifs on islands that don’t even sport a population.
Herbert Hoover was a Republican. He signed into the Smoot Hawley tariffs.
And also Trump did say he was going to use tariffs much more aggressively. Like he didn’t exactly hide any of this.
Dems aren’t necessarily full on globalist let’s export all the jobs to China. But they tend to find at least something workable within the current status quo towards more jobs (not necessarily high paying jobs).
Thats why 50/51 million jobs created in the last couple of decades happened under Dem presidents. This isn’t inherent to their policy making as much as it is trying not to shaking the boat nonsensically to prop up mass fraud or deny reality on universal tariffs with no industrial policy. (Akin to using a whip on a school kid to get them to take the SAT but refuse to buy any prep materials or provide resources to help them study.)
This is why it’s laughable when republicans say “Why are Libs so mean! They call us stupid and racist!” Like how many times must it be before we can call you out for voting inconsistently / moronically / and unprincipled?
Economists say tariffs are bad = Nah, MAGA. Revoking visas when exercising free speech / writing articles = MAGA “I aM a ConStiTutIOnaLisT” = F the courts and legislature’s “Waste Fraud and Abuse.”
I don’t see tariffs as a left-wing policy. Left-wing policies are generally designed to make society more equal. A tariff doesn’t necessarily help with that.