This is plain bad economic policy disguised as a moral crusade against hyper consumption.
If this administration cared at all about the environment, they wouldn't be opening up public land for oil drilling or firing hundreds of scientists working on climate reports as mandated by Congress [1].
They didn't seem to think so when they voted for Trump.
Who could've known that the tariff man would impose tariffs? Maybe his mini trade war with China in 2018--for which he had to bail out farmers--should've served as an indicator of what was to come.
When was the last time the White House spokesperson for a different administration publicly called the free market actions of a private company "hostile"?
I'm sure an example, or something like it, could easily be found to make a whatabout argument. The INSANE difference, in both volume and degree, of "comparable" things is the fact they'll never accept. They'll just double down. It's a death spiral.
Since when did free trade become a partisan issue?
All respected economists on all sides of the political spectrum agree that tariffs hurt the economy. The current President is the only political actor pushing for tariffs.
Reminding people that tariffs are a tax on the consumer is not a partisan issue; it is transparency and plainly economics 101.
> If my toddler scribbles on the wall I better put the markers away next time not put up a little sign that says, "Junior's Doodles."
The point of "Trump Tariffs" is not to make the Trump the scribbler face that wall and feel shame for his output--everybody knows he's too damaged for that.
The point is to ensure everybody else (i.e. voters) recognize that the government is taking their money and understand how it came to occur.
To return to your analogy, it's some message that tells other adults to stop giving Junior their markers, from a source that is beyond your direct control.
> The point of "Trump Tariffs" is not to make the Trump the scribbler face that wall and feel shame for his output--everybody knows he's too damaged for that.
Why do you believe that is the point of “Juniors Doodles”?
> The point is to ensure everybody else (i.e. voters) recognize that the government is taking their money and understand how it came to occur.
If you put “Trump’s Tariffs” there then you are fundamentally ignoring how it came to occur by blaming the person who enacted the tariffs.
You don’t blame the bomb for exploding, you blame the person who lit the fuse.
> To return to your analogy, it's some message that tells other adults to stop giving Junior their markers, from a source that is beyond your direct control.
Sorry, either this makes no sense or I’m too stupid to understand it.
Important to note this isnt a majority: 30% of eligible voters chose the president; and even of those, hardly any are very engaged with his current policies and behaivour.
It's important not to so quickly cede the democractic ground here -- this isnt a democractic movement. It's a 49% election of a president, with 30% of the eligble voters, who collectively did not vote for the constitution to be suspended. They voted for a president, an office which exists by and within the framework of that constitution. There was no referendum on whether the constitution should be amended to allow for effectively unlimited presidental power.
It’s hard to convince people to think the US is in any position to protect those principles when the current administration is attacking each and every one them head on.
