i mean, yes, precisely. both trump, the conservative media and the centrist media repeatedly lied to them about how tariffs work and they believed the lies.
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Mike Eliason
'The latest decline in consumer sentiment was driven by worries over Trump’s tariffs potentially jacking up prices.'
did these people not know how tariffs worked *before* the election?!?
www.cnn.com/2025/02/21/e...
did these people not know how tariffs worked *before* the election?!?
www.cnn.com/2025/02/21/e...
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It's one of the few areas where I don't think he's lying. He's been a fan of tariffs going back to the 1980s at the very least, but over all that time he *really does* seem to think that tariffs tax the exporting country
Still claiming it’s the Chinese who pay it. Well no. It’s AP here, and here is the receipt.