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JanusIanitos's avatar

It's also something we have a harder time stopping as I understand things. There's more leeway for the executive to impose tariffs regardless of congress' input. Deportations and other matters generally at least require funding apportionment even when the executive branch generally can do them unilaterally.

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Paleo's avatar

I don’t have a problem with tariffs depending on the facts and if they’re done for economic reasons. Democrats worshipping at the altar of “free trade”/protecting capital over labor is a big reason why the party has slipped in the Midwest.

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Toiler On the Sea's avatar

Inflation was the number #1 issue this year, and tariffs supercharge that while not providing any corresponding surge for domestic mx. The Biden Administration did more to onshore U.S. manufacturing than any presidency since WWII and voters showed they DGAF.

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ArcticStones's avatar

Voters DGAF because they were largely ignorant. Why were they ignorant? Because Team Biden failed to tout their accomplishments as loudly as Trump would have done – and, sadly, not even as loudly as Trump and the right-wing ecosphere spouted their lies and constant negativity.

You might argue that the news media should have done its job regardless but, sadly, that is not the infotainment reality we live in.

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James Trout's avatar

Or did he tout them and nobody cared?

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ArcticStones's avatar

Tout? Yes. Tout loudly? No. Tout as loudly as Trump? Definitely not!

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James Trout's avatar

The point being you can tout things as much as you want. If voters don’t agree and/or care though, none of it matters.

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ArcticStones's avatar

Oh, I understood your point. My point is that most voters weren’t even hearing it. In other words, it never really got as far as voters deciding whether they care/agree or not.

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James Trout's avatar

Except they were. Biden had websites out touting them, talked about them in conferences, et cetera. Nobody cared.

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Henrik's avatar

I’m probably more favorable to free trade than you are, but I agree on the whole.

That said, Trump’s “25% on Canada and Mexico so I can seem tough lol” isn’t that

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Henrik's avatar

Correct. Though I’m surprised unilateral tariff authority is constitutional seeing as it’s a tax and thus within the purview of Congress

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