TARIFFS: Trump’s tariffs have been smeared as reckless and arbitrary by the media, Democrats, Europeans, and libertarians, but according to Oren Cass, this criticism is a mixture of economic orthodoxy, bad faith, and willful ignorance. Far from being impulsive, Trump’s tariffs are grounded in a published formula and follow... the harmonized tariff schedule, which necessarily includes obscure territories like penguin-filled islands, hardly evidence of chaos. The so-called “reciprocal tariffs” were never about tit-for-tat retaliation, but proportional responses to trade imbalances, a distinction Cass says critics deliberately muddled to maintain a lazy narrative. Cass recalls confronting the Beltway’s refusal to grapple seriously with China, and he sees Trump’s policy, like Reagan’s before it, as a necessary correction to decades of economic dogma that sacrificed American industry at the altar of globalism. h/t Michael Shellenbergershow more

Tariffs were vital to counter foreign exploitation. But botched rollout cost us: 34% China tariff sparked retaliation, 0.7% GDP hit. Rushed deals left loopholes. Canada still lets Chinese goods slip thru Mexico. H.R. 735 shows the right path: targeted tariffs + oversight.

Here’s what could get more expensive with Trump’s new tariffs.

Someday people will realise that Tariffs, for the United States of America, are a beautiful thing! Liberals hate that Trump is bringing prices and inflation down.

These people are ONLY focused in Wall Street and Billionaires not average Americans or Main Street USA. The top 10 percent of America owns 88 percent of ALL stocks. The next 40 percent of people in America owns 12 percent of all stock. The bottom 50 percent of Americans owns ZERO stock and probably doesn’t own their home - they rent and have ONLY debt. Trump is taking all this heat and doing the tariff game for them - the workers and the half of America that owns nothing and never made money on stocks and who ONLY loses.

Well, they're committed to painting the president as both a fool and a madman - neither of which are accurate. They have to present this plan, obviously under consideration for years, as another example of Trump's supposed stupidity. In fact, it's his willingness to ignore the expert class that both angers and terrifies the members of that class.

@grok explain this

Ironically, Pelosi explained the rationale on tariffs 29 years ago.

Trump’s tariffs protect American jobs and industry. Why should we keep letting China exploit us with unfair trade deals?

You are correct. These tariffs are reasoned and targeted the results are already starting to trickle in

Who owns the media?

When tariffs are opposed by the media, Democrats, Europeans, and libertarians, you know the President is doing the right thing.