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Will Americans Lose Interest In ‘Blame China’?
Say congratulations to Donald Trump: The tariffs worked. Trade with China collapsed in May.
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I do not understand why Trump continues to hold the support of the Republicans on the tariffs. I thought that the stay on the enforcement of tariffs granted by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit while the government appeals a ruling from the U.S. Court of International Trade was due to expire today. Still, Trump has the support of Fox “news”. According to that source, the most pressing issue in American society today is high school trans athletes stealing the win.
Yep, if his base gets tired of hating on China, Trump will just rotate to immigrants, colleges, blue states, trans people, or penguins. These people sure love to hate and blame others for everything bad in their lives.
Trump needs enemies to rail against, and while China-as-enemy may not have universal buy-in among the masses, it probably has more buy-in than most _____-as-enemy themes, as well as broad buy-in inside the Beltway. Anyway, his BBB means that he now needs lots of tariff money.
“Trump needs enemies to rail against,”
“We pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under Donald J. Trump, with liberty and justice for us. We shall arrest, detain, jail, deport, and if necessary, kill enemies of our movement, at home and abroad, including traitorous judges and journalists, election workers, and teachers who are deemed to be pornographers, doctors who perform abortions, civil protesters, and millions of illegal aliens, for they are Vermin, poisoning the blood of America. We do this in the name of our Supreme Leader, Donald J. Trump.”
My neighbor fabricates and installs quartz countertops for large homebuilders in the Southwest. All of their materials and machines come from China. His company has thousands of contracts with fixed-price agreements over the next four years. The current tariff level will put him out of business if the agreements are held. At best, installations will be delayed by several months. At worst, he’s toast. He’s not a Trumpy, but most of his customers are. No one wants to buy his company.
Organizing Dems is like herding cats. Reps are monolithic, they do what they are told. Yuval Harari explained why homo sapiens won. History is repeating. Game over. My jaded Opinion.
H-Man, POTUS jumped on Chinese tariffs like a hound dog chasing a raccoon. When China flexed its’ REE export restrictions that runs everything in this country, POTUS found out that not only could the racoon swim it can drown you.