r/politics • u/OnweirdUpweird • 1d ago

Trump's tariffs are 'biggest policy mistake in 95 years,' Wharton's Jeremy Siegel says

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/04/trumps-tariffs-are-biggest-policy-mistake-in-95-years-whartons-jeremy-siegel-says.html
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u/Mysterious-Wasabi103 1d ago

I don't know anymore. They didn't have the propaganda networks back then like they do now.

I don't think they will lose power for more than a single election cycle over this anymore. Thanks to the proliferation of right-wing media gaining mainstream acceptance we simply do not hold Republicans to any standards anymore.

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u/FLHCv2 1d ago

They didn't have the propaganda networks back then like they do now.

Exactly. FoxNews was hitting Democrats HARD on grocery prices and everyone was championing the "reduce prices on day ONE" tagline.

Today, everyone has conveniently fucking forgotten about reducing prices on day one and everyone is pushing that goalpost to YEARS. I know this is anecdotal but I log into facebook every so often just to see what my circles are saying and I've already seen a few spin this as a good "short term pain long term gain" approach; which is exactly what the propaganda networks are ramming down people's throats.

Having the propaganda arm tell people what to blindly believe is huge. I don't have any faith for the die hard MAGA to recognize how bad this all is, but I also don't have much faith for the apolitical either.

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u/shkarada 1d ago

Inflation is, btw, equally caused by actions taken under Trump during covid pandemic.

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u/SlightlySychotic 1d ago

That isn’t exactly true. There were newspapers and they absolutely had a political slant. Business good, and anything that looks like communism bad. The problem is that as things got hard, fewer and fewer people could afford those papers and they stopped being able to notice what was going on around them. The same thing will happen as people are forced to cut their cable and internet to make ends meet.

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u/Iyellkhan 1d ago

what will be interesting is if people loose their shirts but fox and the right wing ecosystem is telling them otherwise, if it will break trust in those media sources. probably depends on how bad this gets.