Does this reflect the Trump era? The end of trade.

[u/Timely_Row_6983]

His love for Russia and Putin, his desire to end free markets and trade and his goal of raising taxes higher than anyone in our lifetime. Long live the Republic of America!!!

Do you think jobs will come back to the US ( now ROA). It took decades of gutting trades, unions, electrical infrastructure… we are not capable. They don’t have a clue of how much retraining and hard infrastructure that needs to be built. If they did they would have phased in the tariffs over 5 to 7 years.

[u/ExtraAd3975]

Seems likely - nobody does anything to stop it. Congress can but don’t

[u/ALDonners]

Putin isn't a communist and this is a primary school level of political understanding

[u/desert-rat-AZ → u/ALDonners]

Not right now but he was a part of the KGB before the Soviet Union fell (so he was certainly a member of the party)

[u/PokeEmEyeballs]

He’s setting up a new global order.  One with separate control zones and economies.

What is actually happening is the rest of the world is diversifying away from American trade, and American demand will never be able to replace current foreign demand for American products and services. The American economy relies on constant growth for survival and such growth can’t happen when you push away your trade partners (a big chunk of the demand) while simultaneously cracking down on immigration which is what keeps your own population growing. 

Any growth in the stock market will be harder to justify when American companies find it hard to grow outside of American borders. 

A lot of foreign investment helps keep the American stock market at current levels and that investment is bound to come shifting out of the American stocks and into other nations seeking to build alternatives trade relationships with smaller foreign companies suddenly seeing opportunities to compete and rapidly grow

[u/Timely_Row_6983 → u/PokeEmEyeballs]

Well said… I’ve been in manufacturing in the US for thirty years. I’ve watched the focus shift from manufacturing and productive assets to financial markets where people shuffle money into real estate and non productive assets. During this hollowing we relied on capital inflows in tech, and financial instruments…. Now with trade barriers up, debts piling up, it’s much easier for exporting countries to just ignore the US and invest elsewhere. As of this morning (assuming Trump doesn’t back down), we are positioned for a depression. With manufacturing build out taking 5-10 years, and capital inflows stopping immediately…. We have several years of breadlines in our future.

[u/Square-Statement5378]

Well next step would be to purge the Republican party... waut is that the next step?!

[u/Antique-Athlete-8838 → u/Square-Statement5378]

That would come after the civil war

[u/Mondkind83]

The Sowjetunion had social services, free helfcare, supported science and education and traded with its allies to good conditions.

Wath Trump does has nothing to do with socialism or komunism.

[u/boobsrbest]

The hammer and cicle should be surrounded by $$$.

[u/SuspiciousSnotling]

The only difference between fascism and communism is the lies they tell you to take off your liberty

[u/ALDonners → u/SuspiciousSnotling]

Khrushchev and Mussolini weren't the same that's without digging out better examples.

[u/RCman123456]

I also see the United States officially entering into this doctrine.