The shear stupidity on display right now in the White House would make any reasonable person, company, or political party appear to endorse capitalism and free trade.
It's hilarious watching Democrats suddenly in favor of free trade and quoting Reagan.
When Biden took over from Trump in 2020 he left all Trump's ridiculous anti-prosperity no-good tariffs in place. All of them.
Assuming Trump ruins the Republican brand for a generation (which it seems he's on track to do) and a Democratic regime is swept into power will this recent endorsement of capitalism last? History is not encouraging.
About as funny as watching the "free markets forever" crowd coming around to 'well sure, some protectionism'. Almost as good as checking back on all the "he's just joking, he would never do blanket tariffs, that would be market suicide' tweets from last fall (or last week).
It's hilarious watching Democrats suddenly in favor of free trade and quoting Reagan.
When Biden took over from Trump in 2020 he left all Trump's ridiculous anti-prosperity no-good tariffs in place. All of them.
Assuming Trump ruins the Republican brand for a generation (which it seems he's on track to do) and a Democratic regime is swept into power will this recent endorsement of capitalism last? History is not encouraging.
As a fiscal conservative, I'd spent the years up to Trump 1.0 on the Republican side...free trade, lower debt. As much as I favored the ideals of the right, the reality of the US is that financially we've done better under Democrats than Republicans. A few data points...
⢠GDP Growth: Real GDP has grown about 1.6 times faster under Democratic presidents than Republican ones. From 1949 to 2023, average annual GDP growth was 3.79% under Democrats compared to 2.60% under Republicans.
⢠Job Creation: Democrats have historically overseen faster job creation, with an annual growth rate of 2.5%, compared to just over 1% under Republicans.
⢠Unemployment: The unemployment rate has tended to decrease under Democratic administrations and increase under Republican ones.
⢠Stock Market Returns: Stock market performance has been stronger on average during Democratic presidencies.
I think the Dems are rational and intelligent enough to appreciate that the notion of domestic US manufacturing is foolish. It can't happen. It's not gonna happen now. I agree that there are national security businesses (medicines, chips, etc.) that need to be available in times of a global crisis, but focus on those and leave the markets to themselves.
An iPhone has between 200 and 300 companies involved in the supply chain. Those companies cannot, and will not, come to the US to manufacture...so either we have $5,000 iPhones or companies will find a way around the supply chain and tariffs.
The shear stupidity on display right now in the White House would make any reasonable person, company, or political party appear to endorse capitalism and free trade.
It's hilarious watching Democrats suddenly in favor of free trade and quoting Reagan.
When Biden took over from Trump in 2020 he left all Trump's ridiculous anti-prosperity no-good tariffs in place. All of them.
Assuming Trump ruins the Republican brand for a generation (which it seems he's on track to do) and a Democratic regime is swept into power will this recent endorsement of capitalism last? History is not encouraging.
It's hilarious watching Democrats suddenly in favor of free trade and quoting Reagan.
When Biden took over from Trump in 2020 he left all Trump's ridiculous anti-prosperity no-good tariffs in place. All of them.
Assuming Trump ruins the Republican brand for a generation (which it seems he's on track to do) and a Democratic regime is swept into power will this recent endorsement of capitalism last? History is not encouraging.
As opposed to them really being shocked, remorseful, apologetic, and work super extra hard to never accidentally be offensive like that again.
Now imagine youâre a T administration diplomat threading the needle as you go to other cultures with their varying ways of protocol and behavingâ¦but this clueless as to whatâs offensive.
So to defend the disappearing of regime critics, JD Vance came out and lied that a Biden immigration judge in 2019 (before Biden was in office) had determined that the person Trump just sent to a gulag was an MS-13 member.
All of that is false. Every single bit of it is false. He's lying.
Which just, again, makes the point that shouldn't even need to be made: we have process protections precisely BECAUSE we can't have a system where your guilt or innocence is determined by the personal opinion of one corrupt couch-fucker.
But honestly, I really need some evidence that there's even a point in explaining this to people. If you REALLY, as an adult human, need it explained to you why the U.S. government should not be able to just disappear people without any process or any recourse, you're just a fascist and are not worth engaging with.
