re: Why has Ben Shapiro been such a Debbie downer lately?

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as anybody listened to him recently?

During the election season, he had been cool, but he’s been continuously melting the past month.

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He believes in free markets and winning elections. Tariffs are jeopardizing both. Trump's favorability on his handling of the economy is hovering around 38% right now, and the effects of the tariffs haven't hit. If the Chinese hold out until midterms, Dems will have both chambers. That's why he's been down. He dislikes Dems more than Rinos, which makes him at odds with the White House.

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quote:because they fricked up when they pushed out Brett Cooper This was a huge mistake. She basically could siphon in a bunch of people to the Daily Wire sphere that would have otherwise paid them no attention

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They had no way of paying her her worth, regardless of her womanness likely to sacrifice things for the company’s good.

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your trade partners are tariffing the shite out of your exports into their country.

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They are hurting their own consumers by manipulating prices and limiting competition. Tariffs aren't paid by governments or companies. They are paid by consumers.

Do you see bombs being dropped on Iran?

because people are getting fed up with israel first politics.

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Waking up next to this may be the reason.

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You think that's his 37 year old wife?

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So, logically, there must be more to the argument that you are missing.

The alternative is that you know better than every ruler and country throughout history, but that's a laughable premise.

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Every ruler in history prevented their people from having a higher standard of living because they prevented cheaper and better goods from competing in their market. They protected their substandard industries and didn't incentivize them to innovate and improve. Truly free trade benefits the consumers, but consumers aren't political donors as much as labor unions and corporations who don't want to compete are. Tariffs are not paid by governments or corporations. They are paid by consumers, and not consumers in other countries...consumers in the country that levied the tariff.

You can use tariffs for leverage, but it will always harm the consumer. Always has, always will.

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It hurts American producers too,

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So? We've been told globalism is the great enemy. We don't need those markets and we don't need to protect other nations. America first, remember? If we don't need their goods, we don't need their markets. American producers are going to have to tighten their belts and adjust their production to the smaller global market that reciprocal tariffs create. Downsize, cut wages whatever it takes to survive in a smaller market.

Surely a population of 350 million can prop up our GDP, since we don't need anyone else.