That “simple boy” has won two presidential elections and has avoided jail even though he has been convicted multiple times.

Underestimate your opponents at your own peril.

I try hard to.

Let's keep it that way. Imagine if he discovers one day he could go over 100%.

Accidentally?

And when it crashes it will be the Deep State's fault.

Raising the income tax to 100% might also give you a brief surge of revenue before people start starving and then burning things.

Oh - he does. It’s the one most devastating things that could happen to the us. Last time someone tried they ended up dead. Gadhaffi did at least

Americans have an amazing capacity to not understand things for centuries after the fact. Some of them are still in denial about why the civil war happened.

When the consequences of Trump's tariffs become clear, they'll just blame the closest Democrat.

Don't bet your savings on that, he did the same bullying moves last time and look where we are now.

Large assumption that my fellow Americans will understand this. They'll just spin it as bidens fault or some shit. Zero accountability or understanding necessary.

Why do you suggest foreign trade partners have no reason to care? The US market will reduce. All trade partners care about that.

Like, election results?

In your mind, does he care what the costs will be to consumers? Or does he just want these things in place because they might benefit him?

Because I'm saying the latter. I'm saying he's manipulative and self-interested.

The election result is a very touchy and emotional subject for most Americans. On the left and on the right.

Ironically the right are less destabilized by their emotions. The left are the ones shaken and unable to recover even to discuss what's going on.

That's a problem. That's part of the loss. It's understandable it's why he won (there was an emotional game played on the left and right by Trump's campaign). Which is a slightly different topic than why the establishment dems lost. But both pertain to an very emotional election.

...so I understand you are rendered incapable as far as discussing these things. Your emotions are understandable. Someone in power is finally being open about selling your democracy, your rights, to fascists. That would be upsetting.

But that's got little to do with me being able to see how his tariff plan benefits him. Nor does being able to see what he's doing make me "full of shit".

But I understand it's rightfully a sore point for any American who is a reasonably intelligent person.

I didn't say prices wouldn't go up. Byt I don't think someone like him worries or cares about how much people will have to pay to replace their washing machines. Do you think he cares about that?

I don't recall saying he was smart.

The choice to remove his tariff. To clarify I'm not saying there's an argument it's a good thing, I'm saying I can see his (self-interested) logic.

Of course I also understand people aren't able to look at his ideas yet, as post election hatred is still high, and should continue as such as he is a hyper capitalist willing to sell America to internal fascists (and probably some parts of it to external fascists too).

A lot of people don't seem to grasp this idea.

If Tramp goes through with his original plan on applying a minimum of 20% tarrifs to all imports, there are exactly zero choices.

Consumers eat the 20% price for imports, and local manufacturers raise their prices to match because they no longer have any competition at their old price point. To make it worse, wherever domestic production isn't able to meet demand, products will still have to be imported.