Tariffs are not a new concept and have been used historically to build economies. Top China analysts in the Obama administration credited its economic rise to protective tariffs and high barriers to entry for any foreign companies to sell in country.
I’m probably a bit older than most lemmy users and remember when tariffs were a major talking point for democrats as a positive thing to protect American jobs. Hell, growing up in the Midwest, all my dad and his buddies that worked union jobs had to vote democrat because of their aggressive tariff policy to protect their jobs.
So what if trump is right about tariffs and it reinvigorates the American economy? Will people find another reason to credit the success to? Will it be the end of blue collar voting for the democrats?
Edit: Markets are rebounding hard, I bought low, glad Lemmy is full of pseudo intellectual economic morons. How is Lemmy going to cope now?
How did you make it through life with such a blatent lack of critical thinking skills? Your comment history is full of these dumbass takes. I mean my God man. You sound like a fucking cartoon character. Neoliberal propoganda disguised as science? What the actual fuck does that even mean? Take off your tin foil hat and take a walk man. Clear your head. Jesus christ. What has happened to our world where no one believes in science? It’s fucking science man. Not everything is a political conspiracy. Not everything revolves around a political agenda. Some things just exist, like science. Reading comments like this make me want to jump off a bridge. It’s hard for me to accept that there are actually people that fucking gullible and stupid. I mean do you just listen to the people screaming the loudest? Do you have no concept of logic or reasonability?
Nothing you said can even be considered a coherent thought. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
Take them meds bro.
Do you even believe in meds? Or is that part of the “neoliberal science conspiracy” too?
I believe in meds and I believe in science. Especially the science of complex systems. I don’t believe in political philosophy branded as science. The reproducability metric of social sciences and political economy is so bad that the complete field should move into humanities and philosophy (which isn’t bad, but it isn’t science). Aspiring sciences.
I mean it isn’t a secret that huge amounts of resources has been poured into neoliberal think tanks since the 70s. It’s an ideology which justifies the rich getting richer. Such stuff always get at lot of funding. It’s inherent.
I don’t think I’m the one who’s in lack of critical thinking here Mr 420.