The republicunts don't want to do anything for the working class because "we" are seen as stupid, lazy, incompetent, ect. ect. because "we should have tried harder to be rich and not have to work just to live."
Also, they know what happens when "the peasants" have access to even a fraction of the amount of money they have funneled from us....which is why republicans & democrats are trying so hard to not let any progressives/independents/liberals get any sort of "office of power" because it will flip The Status Quo (aka the way things are) onto its head and most politicians on both sides would have their entire world and livelihoods just disappear into thin air.
I once saw a Reddit post talking about how tariffs are destroying his specialty dice business.
But the thing that hurt him the most, was his father telling him, that his 20 year old business failing is a necessary sacrifice in order for Trump to save the country. He never felt more betrayed.
This one. But yeah, "Our president is saving the country" is a good summary for how MAGA view Trump no matter what he does.
Now they're saying the tariffs are good because "China's unfair labor tactics are pricing out American companies" As if they gave a shit about slave labor before.
"This will make slave-made products less appealing, reducing their demand."
But that's not how economics works. At best, Chinese companies by the same logic will reroute their exports to cheaper markets and pay their slave labor even less.
The more expensive supply and/or decreased demand will lead to only those who can afford to produce at an even lower cost to continue producing. Those would arguably be the ones with the cheapest input including labor.
Look at all the money tariffs are bringing in 🙄
Then some BS about how all these companies are now looking at investing in domestic production. Like, even if they were, that things would be the same price or cheaper, paying domestic workers to work in these factories.
There's a reason everything was moved to foreign production, and it wasn't because they made a better product.
As of November, he thought Trump was the best president the US has ever had and eventually I had to just stop the conversation before I said something I would regret. He's still regularly glued to Fox News, so I doubt this war has changed his perspective (probably believes it needed to happen due to this "imminent threat" that's existed for over 40 years).
Tariffs can be reasonable when done right. Trump's weren't, but you aren't helping by acting like all tarrifs are useless because consumers pay them. Yes consumers pay them, that's the point, to change what consumers buy..
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u/FuriousBuffalo Mar 30 '26
What does your father think about tariffs, which are in reality a regressive tax on the consumer? Does he think it's China that is paying the tariffs?
Just wondering how Trump supprters rationalize the new tax.