Trump’s tariffs are the ultimate MAGA loyalty test

Friday, I books About President Trump’s motives for this introductory plan. It has nothing to do with trade, which is what he does not understand. He runs the protection racket, shakes other countries (as well as universities, law firms and companies) to force them to make his offer. If you want to prove more, listen to Sunday night talking about the contract of Europe for “a lot of money on an annual basis and also for the past.”
Trump’s heavy dissatisfaction with Europe comes strongly in his accent. Andrew Salon also shows brilliantly In this pieceIt is not a job, it’s a personality.
It was inappropriately prosperous during the improvised press conference on Air Force One, it appears to be “winning” the championship at his golf course As it does every year (He is one of the best golf players that the world knew, of course), and he did not care clearly that at that particular moment, futures markets were in a state of her very bad Monday in Wall Street. It is not interested in this or any other negative result of the irrefutable tariff policy. He explained to the gathering press complex that everyone would have to “take our medicines”, but he insisted that his definitions would not be cheerful because his definition on China did not cause inflation when he was president the first time.
His belief that other countries “tearing” America for decades and that global leaders laugh at us is honest. He was bombing this drum for 40 years. But it is wrong. Of course, the world did not hold “us” or laugh at “we”. America is the richest and most powerful nation on the face of the earth, and it has since the beginning of the twentieth century. We have created the rules where the global economy works, and the US dollar is the backup of the world, and we are the only military military force in the world.
We have problems, of course, not the least of which is the inequality in the huge wealth that distorts our economy, our culture and our policy so far that we are about to collapse from the complete few. But America’s description as a poor and oppressive nation exploited by the rest of the world is imagination.
It is clear that Trump does not bother her at all, violent reactions that caused his policy, even among many of his most powerful supporters in Wall Street and in the business community.
But then his bubble became almost uncomfortable, as people around him felt terrifying that he would go to half of the planet and do something crazy, so he may not hear half of what people say. If what the cabinet members say is an accurate reflection of his views, it is quite clear that he is very deluded.
On Sunday, his economic and commercial team struck the morning offers and was barely reassuring. Treasury Secretary Scott Besent made his best effort Baghdad Bob impression, Saying On “Meet The Press” from NBC, people can relieve that things work smoothly despite the scale of registration in the markets and then Claim People who approach or retire who have provided money do not check their accounts “day after day”. (Billionaires do not sweat a 10 % decrease in the market, so why should anyone else?) This reminds us of the Minister of Commerce, Howard Lootnick He said two weeks ago It is only the fraud fraud that complains if they do not get a social security examination. They cannot be too much if they try.
Lootnick back On CBS ‘Face The Nation “and was unequal about robots, manufacturing and” small screws “that you had to wonder if someone was putting something in his morning coffee. Trade representative Peter Navarro, and at the same time, Fox News said You can only lose money if you sell and we will get the greatest boom in the stock market in history. And cultivation again. Brock Rollins appeared on CNN Reassure the Americans These are the smartest people with whom I worked with.
There is no doubt that Trump was very happy with all their shows. They told him exactly what he wanted to hear. Unfortunately for him, these people looked for the rest of America as if they had just expelled on a spacecraft and no one almost, but more than the Maga field members or a member of the Trump administration buy either of this. Anyone who has eyes know to see that the global economy is in a serious crisis that Trump and Trump only wear.
Financial times were published Very sharp editorial This observation, which must send chills below the spine of the Republicans who will face voters next year:
Those who hope for prosperity during the Trump era have an unpleasant shock. The liberation day, which is called Wednesday, was the culmination of the 10 -week shooting of the conservative economic conference in America. The normative fare to cancel the restrictions required to search for growth and tax discounts has gone through a verb from amateur economic sabotage that betrays both the ideology “we are in front of them” at the heart of everything that Trump does, and the absence of any clear framework for his actions.
They notice that the public rejects the Trump’s economic agenda: “[T]Before his week before the chaos of the tariff, 63 percent of Americans had a negative vision of the government’s economic policy, comfortably the highest number since the records began nearly 50 years ago. “Only 25 percent said they would be better in five years, which is less than the low point of the financial crisis.
The witness where America discovers the nature of the leopards.
David Roberts (@volts.wtf)) April 5, 2025 at 3:24 pm
The economist was more fragile:
If it fails to discover “America” is looting, looting, rape and looting by near and far nations “or denying the cruelty” rotation to prosperity “, then congratulations: you have a more stable grip on reality than the President of the United States. It is difficult to know what is more worrying: that the free world leader can completely explode around his more successful economy and admiration. Motivated by his illusions, Donald Trump has announced the largest trade policy in America for more than a century – and he committed the most deep, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era.
It is not only the financial press in the clothes of Didod on its policies. During the weekend, millions of Americans and people around the world hit the streets in mass demonstrations in everything from big cities to small rural cities in deep red states. Trump’s resistance was to gather Steam for some time, but this tariff disaster moved it to the next level.
Nate Cohen from the New York Times forecast The people were already annoyed by the Doug disaster, the law -free deportation and the reckless foreign policy team, but the destruction of the economy intentionally may penetrate only the Republican Party:
If the economic repercussions are bad enough, dissatisfaction with the Trump administration can be combined with the feature of democratic demand for a long time to make the Republican countries that seem safe in 2026 – think about Kansas, Iowa and Texas – reasonably competition, perhaps even with control of the Senate. Constant support for Congress Republicans (or satisfaction with) Mr. Trump – whether on customs tariffs or other transgressions – can be in danger.
In a natural world, there will be no doubt that the tanks will have a political suicide. But Donald Trump is believed to be trapped in the laws of political gravity, and in some respects you cannot blame him. They survived more scandals than any politician in American history. But at some point, you have to wonder whether self -conservation may begin to look a little different from other Republicans if the country is mired in stagnation and the federal government has been destroyed that it could not respond. If not, they may be in a big surprise in 2026.
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