The reactions by some on the right to the tariffs are embarrassing in their mindlessness. Pure sophistry and non sequiturs that avoid actually putting forth a coherent economic argument. Probably because you can’t defend what actually happened. Trump unleashed “retaliatory tariffs” not even based on tariff rates but based on some formula regarding trade deficits which is nonsensical. Thus, the highest tariffs are against countries like Cambodia, Bangladesh and Lesotho, who apparently are the ones “ripping us off.”
There is no coherent strategy or economic view here. One day it’s “tariffs are necessary to rebuild the US economy” then they’re just 4d chess negotiating tactics, then when the markets plummet over the chaos that’s actually fine because (a la Bernie Sanders) the stock market isn’t the economy and who cares about people’s stock portfolios?! The only lodestar is trust in Trump no matter what. It will be interesting to see how long these rationalizations can continue if things get worse.
It’s just so wild to see these movements see saw, it feels like just yesterday that conservatives were boycotting Disney and the left was gloating.
Just incredible. After posting a meme blaming Charlie Kirk for his own murder, they post another a few hours later applauding Democrats for their civility.
Also, if you look at the Occupy Democrats timeline, their posts “denouncing political violence” were variations on “no one should be shot…BUT here’s a quote from Kirk showing he’s a terrible person.” Or sometimes they’d leave the first part out altogether and just attack him. There are no posts denouncing violence without qualifiers trying to gin up their base.
