What pisses me off the most about the MAGA tariff thing is they're all justifying the action rather than justifying an end point. They change their cope based on what Trump is doing that hour, tariffs are bringing back local industry, it's bring down wall street, it's bring back true free global trade with no tariffs, etc.
It's so boring to argue with people who believe nothing and retroactively justify someone ELSE'S actions.
It's the critical thing to understanding them is to listen when they say they don't know how any of this works, but they trust Trump based on his track record.
Yes it's wrong, but assume for just a minute that the guy has this awesome political and financial track record. You can kind of understand their reaction based on that assumption. Assume everyone said he would fail, and he succeeded beyond wildest dreams, so all the people saying negative things now are just going to be wrong again.
Okay so, that is literally the information they are working with. I hear it every single day.
And here's the kicker: they believe it in part because DEMOCRATS and other Trump opponents spent years agreeing that it was true!
For years we had people yelling about how Trump was effective in implementing his dangerous agenda, that these people liked, and that helped get him reelected, and it's part of why his supporters are accepting this stuff.
It was obviously a dangerous strategy, and this is exactly the danger.
