re: Bad week for MAGA

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I voted for Trump but this tariff bullshite is so stupid it's not even debatable.

No one who considers himself to be a market conservative would even begin to support this asinine idea.

Not even the most liberal Democrats would propose a tariff on the goods that we use in our manufacturing economy.

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That’s absurd.

Trump campaigned on this. Why is it a surprise suddenly?

He said he was going to boost American steel over and over, and said many times that foreign steel, especially Chinese steel, sucks and American manufacturing should be buying better US steel.

How did you think he was going to get American manufacturing to buy American steel?

How did you think we were going to reduce/eliminate trade deficits with other countries?

Anyone with a brain understood this is how you make that happen. ie. Tariffs

WTF do you think an America-First Protectionist Populist agenda means?

The American steel and aluminum companies just got a14% reduction in corporate taxes and elimination of troves of stifling regulations for a goddamn reason. They need the work. These tariffs give them that opportunity.

The tax reduction and elimination of burdensome regulations should help offset production costs and help make the consumer purchase costs competitive with pre-tariff foreign prices.