Dems quietly backing Trump tarrif's

Yes there are some Democrats who agree with tariffs, that’s true. Trump has a lot of good ideas that Americans agree with like reducing the deficit, deporting criminals, and making government smaller. The problem isn’t the ideas so much as how he’s doing it, like a monkey with a chainsaw. The problem for Democrats is developing a plan and finding a way to say how they can do it better. It’s an opportunity for them since polls show Americans disapprove of how Trump is going about it.

https://www.axios.com/2025/03/16/democrats-trump-tariffs-economy

 

Of course they're for sending checks to people with lower income because they're the ones disproportionately impacted by the tariffs.

 

Today we learned that tariffs are a leftist economic policy that leftists approve of.

 

“Thanks Obama.”

 

So what you are saying is all the bitching from the left about tariffs is just TDS again showing it's ugly face.

 

I certainly wouldn't turn away a stimulus check.

 

Speaking of monkeys with chainsaws. I like the idea of making sure programs are still needed but musks doge antics were just not smart.

 

I, for one, have been eagerly awaiting the opinion of .... Dan Turrentine.

 

It's so telling how blindly ignorant the hateful left is to the difference between the process and results of Trump's tariffs.

The return of American manufacturing and enormous investments in American employment infrastructure has been extraordinary- TY tarrifs!

 

That was a “mod edit” which changed the context of my post. The original post said Today we learned that tariffs are a leftist economic policy that leftists approve of.
Tariffs generally are leftist policy, esp when it comes to certain unions looking for protections from competition. I’m sure UAW like the prospect of making Japanese vehicles cost 15% more, for example, even though it’s likely to be a net economic negative. I am not aware of anyone favoring whatever looney tunes tariffs were originally proposed on so-called liberation day.

 

I think this nailed it.

It also explains however why even Trump haters will vote for him, because he is the only person in some opinions, who even says some of the stuff (that so many agree with) our loud.

Democrats often seem more concerned about appearing tolerant than they do speaking truth and making hard decisions.

Trump on the other hand, speaks truth at times, but does it too harshly and sprinkles it with crap loads of hyperbolic nonsense and falsehoods

 

Hmmm...

Monthly Advance Report on Durable Goods Manufacturers' Shipments Inventories and Orders - Press Releases

Manufacturing employment:

All Employees, Manufacturing

 

Thanks for the wonderful post from the Daily Caller again. I am supporting these tariffs because I really feel that if I pay 50% more for a whole bunch of things that I like, I will get at least 50% more pleasure out of them.

 

I would rather have a president who struggles with making a hard decision than one who makes the decision either randomly, or with as little information as possible, because he believes he has a God-given ability to automatically make the right decision. In the end, America will wind up agreeing that the worst con job was the one that Trump did on himself to believe that he was infallible and needed no experts to advise him. That's why we have sycophantic Fox News hosts in Cabinet positions. That's why the second Trump term is noticeably worse than the first one (and worse than Biden's term).

 

LOL, do you hear yourself?

"They're eating the dogs!"

 

Is there a tax the democrats didn't love?

 

Tariffs have their place. He has created an unstable, uncertain economic future with his up and down rates, and the indecisive behavior towards them. The rates go up and down, the effective dates keep changing. I get he wants to use them like a negotiation in a real estate deal, but you can't do that and then cry about the fed not lowering rates.

 

Just a word about tariffs - they (and the reciprocal tariffs put in place by the BLOCs/countries he targeted) - won't fully show in economic data yet. It's coming.
Strained international relationships start immediately (oh, boy have they!)
Rising consumer prices will be the next obvious earlier pain, but longer term, trade barriers also usually reduce international competitiveness and weaken economic growth. I get nationalism - it's so easy to convince people you're doing the best for your own, but honestly, if anyone in this world benefits from reduced barriers to trade, it's the US public. You guys ever stop to wonder why such a bad system has you far and away the most powerful economy in the world? Food for thought...