Here is a reminder that a nontrivial chunk of new Trump voters genuinely thought they might be getting another round of stimulus checks with Trump in office, because they loved the economy (and the COVID economic response) when he was president.
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@lxeagle17.bsky.social given what’s happened and how broken the information environment is, would it have been better for the Dems to have done nothing to help anyone? Like, they got ZERO political benefit out of it.
Oh, I think in terms of cold hard political calculus, the Dems shouldn't have passed a penny of economic relief under Trump and saved it all for under Biden
like, shit sucks, but people remember his check with the name on it so
Importers pay the tariffs directly to the government, and then pass that additional cost to consumers. So, yes, the tariffs will raise money. But it will paid for by American businesses that use imported goods and, therefore us, the consumer.
I mean... administration is still young and I expect stimulus checks, price controls, maybe even redenomination to be the solutions offered before "end the trade war."
A lot of folks were probably looking back to how things were going in the economy in 2018-19 and just naively believed if they elected Trump back into office, the economy would go back to that time period.
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like, shit sucks, but people remember his check with the name on it so