All politicians say things. Tariffs are a good bargaining tool but I doubt Trump would ever initiate a 10% across the board tariff. More about saber rattling, warning some countries like Germany, Mexico, China and France that their unfair trade practices are on his radar. He's also making domestic companies aware that those companies who manufacturing and produce durable goods and agriculture products in other countries only to sell back to the US they do so at their own peril. Trump is attempting to protect US manufacturing jobs and small farmers, what's wrong with that?
USMCA was negotiated and signed by 45. It encourages companies to expand manufacturing to Canada and Mexico.
It's worth noting that tariffs against China actually wrecked farming exports. The feds had to add subsidies to bail them out
trump making empty threats of tarrifs when he doesn't understand how tariffs work makes us look incompetent and weak.
Complimentary manufacturing. Mexico Promoting Chinese auto-manufacturers to set up shop then flood the US with Chinese( Mexican) automobiles is not following the spirit of USMCA. I never agreed that tariffs are a solve all policy. I believe lowering corporate tax rates, creating incentives to set up shop in the US is perhaps a better competitive strategy.
They circle-jerk their unquestioning support and totally disregard anything to the contrary. If anyone wants to feel dumber, read the comments on NotTooBrightBart about Trump rescuing North Carolina with his tiny handful of emergency supplies. A small number of valiant souls try to point out that he was lying, but the cultists are wilfully ignorant.
i cannot take one for the team, there... it's just too much of a sewer
Apparently HALF of America fails to understand
Yeah, there's a lot of true believers in MAGA/Trump. Most of my family are among them. Oddly, not my older niece, the 25 year old one (her half-sister just turned three today, not exactly of voting age). Her father, my brother, is a retired 24 year Air Force veteran and is still irate at the Obama Administration for a lot of issues that happened during that time. I can't really refute his point there. Even so, I don't see that as a valid excuse to back a mentally deranged draft-dodger as Commander-in-Chief. My parents and my sister in particular are hard-core religious right social conservatives, all the way down the line. That has always been the case. That was how I was brought up, though I was always a bit less extreme on social issues myself (maybe because I sensed on some level that I wasn't entirely heterosexual?). Even so, I faithfully voted their way until 2006, and even after that, I still backed the GOP in 2010, 2012, and 2014 (though with a very different emphasis and motive).
