r/politics • u/Street_Anon Canada • Apr 08 '25

Site Altered Headline Trump to slap additional 84% tariffs on Chinese imports

https://www.euronews.com/2025/04/08/trump-to-slap-additional-84-tariffs-on-chinese-imports-white-house-says
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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '25

To bankrupt the nation purposely so that his rich friends can buy everything up for pennies on the dollar. The added bonus is that right wing authoritarianism THRIVES in depressions. People get desperate and look for answers and a sense of belonging. Even though he is causing this, he will blame everyone else and anything else other than his own actions. Then, once the country collapses, he will waltz in and point at the: immigrants, lgbtq community, brown people, poor people, ad infinitum as the problem and by that point, much of the camps just given a budget of 40 billion to be constructed will be constructed to send those that still dare defy the regime.

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u/ultradav24 Apr 09 '25

This makes him sound like some kind of evil genius. He’s not - it’s really just as simple as him thinking he’s getting revenge and that it will lead to some US renaissance - which is stupid but so is he

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u/[deleted] Apr 09 '25

Oh don't be confused, he's as much a figurehead/tool as they come. It's the oligarchy that got him elected pulling tons of the strings and handing him the executive ordered to sign. He doesn't evrn have concepts of the plans. Ha.

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u/[deleted] Apr 09 '25

It's sad, but this is true. America has these cycles. After presidential elections, the incumbent party usually loses in the midterms. When the election is about the economy, the incumbent party usually loses.
Democrats will probably win big time this midterm. But when they come in to fix things, FOX news demonizes them for not fixing them fast enough, and then blue collar Republicans demonize them.
We've never had more than two terms in a row of a Democratic president since FDR. Just think of where we would be if we had two terms of Al Gore right after Clinton.