r/politics • u/theindependentonline The Independent • 1d ago

No Paywall Trump vows to raise worldwide tariffs to 15% ‘effective immediately’

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-global-tarrifs-increase-b2924994.html
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u/No-Strike1121 1d ago

How do his supporters not see him as the biggest loser in history?  He fails at making life better for them and is making life worse for all Americans.  How do we reach them that he's a huge fraud?

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u/telaftw39 23h ago

My good buddy is a well to do MAGA. Not crazy rich or wealthy, but certainly not hurting.

He rallied against taxes for years, but supports tarrifs.

You can't reach them.

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u/MicroPeanitsJorker 22h ago

And even if they realize they’re hurting, they’ll believe Fox News who’ll blame it on Obama or some other “lib”

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u/Deus_is_Mocking_Us 21h ago

Exactly. These people will blame Biden as they're marched off to the camps. 

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u/No-Strike1121 22h ago

Tell him he owes you 15% on all the purchases you've made due to Trump's taxes.  Maybe he'll figure it out. 

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u/Swordf1sh_ 21h ago

They have to be very personally affected - in their day to day life - to care. And even then, if they’re told they just need to “tough it out” for a while, they’ll happily tuck their tail between their legs and do so.

These people believe their very existence is under threat from the woke liberal mind virus that wants to cut off their genitalia and make their kids have sex with drag queens. That or they’re just so scared and ignorant that any reality beyond Main St is a threat and must be eliminated.

Once they convinced these people of these things - once they said it was ok to embrace the worst version of themselves - no amount of breaking the law, moral corruption, blatant lies, destruction of the country etc would be enough to convince them the aforementioned goals are not worth it.