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u/-grenzgaenger- 14h ago
As a european, I must ask: are MAGA voters truly upset by the tariffs? I was under the impression that they support the Great Leader regardless.
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u/Similar-Profile9467 13h ago
The MAGA loyalists are trying to defend the tariffs.
It's the fucking dumbass "moderates" who hated Kamala and thought Trump would be "good for the economy" who are now mad. I'm more angry a these moderates because the loyalists are too far gone and they're in a rabbitbhole that is hard to get out of. The moderates should have known better.
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u/Fuckmobile42 12h ago
I'm in Texas. There are zealots who will never change, their brains are fried, and they will support Orangey no matter what.
But some of the people are going along with all of this simply due to culture. They are told to follow Orangey by their parents and church and stuff. The Orangey enthusiasts who just follow due to peer pressure are showing some signs that they can see the bullshit.
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u/Western-Main4578 13h ago
They're trying to claim it's good for the country still.
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u/Weisenkrone 10h ago
Some people appreciate this out of sheer spite for what they perceive the system to be.
Old boomers who made a ton of money, now have a lot of stocks, rich people with stocks and are more then happy at the economy crashing.
The largest part of those who celebrate this are young people without retirement investments into the market which struggle to find a career, much more so with older people (with stock investments!) blocking the career ladder.
Which ... Look. I'm not a financial specialist, but I do not believe that crashing the economy with Tarifs is gonna have the effect that those people think it will.
But hey, I guess factory jobs are gonna be back on the menu with how this is going ...
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u/MuscleMansBenson 8h ago edited 5h ago
I wouldn’t expect Nazi sympathizers to understand a single thing about economics. They have the intelligence of a toddler.
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u/KTRyan30 11h ago
All the maga people in know are thrilled with the tariffs, they are buying the short term pain for long term gain line.
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u/No-Impress-2096 7h ago
Give it a few weeks. They'll be pissed when the cheap sweat pants double in price. 50% chance they'll somehow blame that on Biden too though.
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u/Aardappelhuree 8h ago
I think they’re being passive about it since they’re promised they will no longer have to pay income taxes.
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u/butteryspoink 5h ago
Nope.
They don’t know what’s going on, they don’t understand what’s going on, and they won’t acknowledge what’s going on. It’s a cult. There’s no logic there.
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u/BuckGlen 2h ago
I have family deep in the maga camp. Heres the report: Half are "jeez... this doesn't look good. My portfolio is fucked, and people i work with are too afraid to go to work" The other half "haha! Eggs arent 10 dollars a carton anymore. See! Just like trump said. So when he says the tariffs will fix our economy they will! Even CNN had to admit that!" (This person absolutely does not watch CNN but tells everyone they do to appear more "well rounded")
I think the people who were tricked into think a supposed businessman could be good for the economy have buyers remorse, and maybe cope on the thought things would be bad under biden/harris too. The "troll the libs" type have no remorse and are happy to see people upset, and blame any trump failure on conspiracies against the leader.
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u/Express-Umpire5232 9h ago
The thing about the election is that not everyone who voted for Cheeto man is MAGA; a lot of people voted for him because he was the only candidate promising to make changes to how things operate (obviously not good changes, but change nonetheless). I’m assuming those who voted for him are absolutely regretting their decision, but MAGAs and the staunch conservatives are smoking that copium pack like there’s no tomorrow
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u/jus256 5h ago
changes to how things operate
Which things?
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u/Express-Umpire5232 1h ago
Rampant inflation and stagnating wages are two things I’ve heard many people talking about across the political spectrum.
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u/M1x1ma 14h ago edited 14h ago
This is what's so confusing to me. Trump campaigned on doing this and he won the election. Now he's doing what his voters gave him a mandate to do. It's like some massive stupidity event.
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u/Cold_Pumpkin5449 13h ago
I think they are confused because Trump ALSO paradoxically promised to make literally everything better.
Trump believes that tariffs will solve literally all of our problems, and the people who elected him didn't understand that he basically has no real cohesive idea of how any of this actually works out in reality.
I'm as surprised as everyone else that so many people could miss that Trump doesn't seem to really know what he's doing or have a really cohesive plan. To be fair, he never really talked in detail about how all this was supposed to work on the campaign trail. He would just say what he was going to do, and then asserted that it would all work out.
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u/Various_Occasions 8h ago
Nah they've already graduated to "Tariffs are good, Trump is playing 4D chess and we just need some pain before we achieve our glorious future"
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u/Lonnification 8h ago
I keep getting the, "Well, how do we know Harris wouldn't have done the same thing or worse?"
Un-fucking-believable.
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u/AlxIp 5h ago
It took just 71 days for Donald Trump to wreck the American economy, mortally wound NATO, and destroy the American-led world order.
He did this with the enthusiastic support of the entire Republican party and conservative movement.
He did it with the support of a plurality of American voters.
He did not hide his intentions. He campaigned on them. He made them the central thrust of his election. He told Americans that he would betray our allies and give up our leadership position in the world.
There are only three possible explanations as to why Americans voted for this man:
they wanted what he promised;
they didn’t believe what he promised; or
they didn’t understand what he promised.
Pick whichever rationale you want, because it doesn’t matter. Whatever the reason was, it exposed half of the electorate—the 77 million people who voted for Trump—as either fundamentally unserious, decadent, or weak.
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u/Affectionate_Pay1487 3h ago
There's only one explanation and you missed it. Trump campaigns on white supremacy.
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u/Objective-Start-9707 7h ago
Yeah r/conservative is hilarious right now 😂
They finally know what it feels like to be a Democrat: even when you win, you lose.
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u/v4bj 3h ago
People can be very very deluded. Just see if you took a long position then everything looks brighter for that company and that is how you interpret all the news coming in about them. And vice versa is true. The Street loved Trump, rallied insanely when he got elected. Turns out they were wrong and he really is that extreme.
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u/Forsaken-Cattle152 16h ago
It's funny how Foxnews.com doesn't report at all on the epic market crash caused by orange bilbo 10 bagger...