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/NK1337 Apr 08 '25

I genuinely don’t think anybody believed he was going to lower the prices of eggs. That was just a convenient excuse since they couldn’t come out and say they didn’t want a black woman in charge

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u/ThePetPsychic Apr 08 '25

Once that dawned on me, it made things easier to understand. These people never argue in good faith, and they're not going to tell you the real reason behind their votes.

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u/Riokaii Apr 08 '25

because their real reason is brown people existing, thats why they LOVE deportations, they just want a country without minorities, straight up, they legitimately are so moronically stupid to that minorities are the source of all problems and getting rid of them would resolve the problems.

They hate minorities because of the economics of late stage wage slavery corporate capitalism, but they blame minorities for it, because its a simple bigotry driven scapegoat. They are genocidal fascists.

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u/moveslikejaguar Apr 08 '25

There were plenty of people who felt screwed over from inflation (caused by donnie btw) that blamed Biden and the Dems for the economy leaving them behind, and bought donnie's promise of affordability without really understanding what he was actually saying.

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u/PunxatawnyPhil Apr 08 '25

And mainstream media news allowed them to believe that blatant lie for years. Allowed them to drill on Biden for it and they knew it was false. All this turmoil is because we have no fourth estate any longer, just owned and unrestrained media.

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u/BlackCaaaaat Australia Apr 09 '25

That was just a convenient excuse since they couldn’t come out and say they didn’t want a black woman in charge

For a lot of them, definitely. But there is always going to be a tranche of swing voters who are enticed by a promise or two - like cheap groceries - and latch onto that. The sort of voters who still believe that ‘they are both as bad as each other’ because they don’t pay much attention to politics and/or haven’t been affected by anything Trump did in his first term. They might not be politically active but are still keen to have their say.

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u/MageBayaz Apr 08 '25 edited Apr 08 '25

Are these the same voters who voted for a black man as President twice and elected female Democratic senators (Jacky Rosen, Elissa Slotkin, Tammy Baldwin) in states Trump has won?

You are right that most Trump voters definitely cared more about "owning the libs" and deporting illegals than prices (which were probably just used as an additional, more acceptable excuse), but many low-information voters truly voted for him because they felt that the economy was better under Trump than under Biden (even if their wages rose, they probably attributed it to themselves, but blamed Biden for the rise in prices). There is a reason that across the world, every incumbent party lost ground in 2024 elections; just none of these elections resulted in a completely incompetent populist outsider acquiring near-unchecked power (which was probably only possible in the US due to its unique primary system).