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Trump has literally been prattling about his love of tariffs for decades and was explicit about his plans to heavily leverage tariffs during his campaign.. I t
by _2d30 1y ago
Trump has literally been prattling about his love of tariffs for decades and was explicit about his plans to heavily leverage tariffs during his campaign..
I think you might just want an excuse to believe what you already believe
- fullshark 1y agoI just think a lot of democrats really haven't paid attention to how Trump has morphed the Republican party and the realignment that has been going on. They still think of a Republican as George w. Bush / John McCain / Mitt Romney even though they have all been effectively excommunicated from the party. I think part of it was hope was Trump was a momentary blip but that's obviously no longer the case.
- potato3732842 1y agoEveryday people have been clamoring for some sort of change for a long time. 00s at least. It reached a boiling point in the late 2010s and you had a nearly parallel rise of Trump and Bernie. The difference is that the republicans couldn't keep a lid on Trump and his backers like the democrats did to Bernie. So Trump got in and then politicians "built in his image" started getting elected all over the place. So now the republicans have a party that more accurately reflects what people want. And they'll use that to mop the floor with the democrats until the democrats turn their own party over to reflect what voters want.
- andrekandre 1y ago> reflect what voters want. and what do they want?
- kibibu 1y agoChange.
- zelphirkalt 1y agoNation-wide Chesterton's Fence happening right now, with people learning a hard lesson soon enough. Let's just hope it won't be too late to repair their broken systems.
- BLKNSLVR 1y agoIt's never too late to fix. The problem is the time frame. The changes made thus far present at least a decade of rebuilding to fix, and we're only 100 days in.
- Capricorn2481 1y ago> It's never too late to fix. The problem is the time frame. We're never out of time but the problem is time? There is absolutely a point of no return.
- BLKNSLVR 1y agoSorry, I should have said: The problem is the time frame of the fix If the US ends up a smoking ruin it can still be fixed, it'll just take longer.
- zelphirkalt 1y agoI mean, eventually we also hope some other places develop something like a functioning democracy, or whatever is better in the future, and we hope it will be a matter of time until they at some point do. The problem with the US is though, that they have the most powerful military on the planet, and the US ending up in smoking ruins probably means lots of other places going down with it, when the US looks outside for reasons of its failure. It is quite dangerous.
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- sumeno 1y agoFor life to be worse for the people they don't like. They just didn't expect it to be worse for them too
- _2d30 1y agoA rational theory of spite suggests that even if they know that it will be worse for them too, if the level of their spite is great enough, they are still better off because the joy of the suffering of others is greater than their own induced suffering.
- __MatrixMan__ 1y agoTo be listened to, rather than to be told what to care about, and to have those concerns make it to competent people with the power to do something about them. But it's not really compatible with a system where one person represents millions. You'd need something recursive such that no person represents more than a hundred or so, that way there's time to circle back and explain why certain complaints aren't being addressed this cycle and such. You know, responsibility of leadership to the people. It's also not really compatible with a system where your representative for foo-type issues must also be your representative for bar-type issues, because "competent people" is too broad of a category to be useful. How to get there from here? I'm not sure but it seems like it'll require a more significant discontinuity than we've seen so far.
- disgruntledphd2 1y agoRepeal the act capping house representatives to 435. The house then expands massively and you get more representative government.
- chgs 1y agoSo you have 6,000 representatives, which is about the same ratio as the population back in 1790. What does each one do? What agency does each have? They get 20 minutes a year to speak assuming a 2000 hour working year.
- panick21_ 1y agoWhat would happen is that representatives are more locally focused on their districts and would vote in larger 'sub'-parties. In a single seat district system, increase in seats its also proven to improve representation for minorities. I don't think the expansion by itself is a fix-all solution. One of the issues is that you have many single issue districts and those that get elected can vote whatever they want on everything else. That is both good and bad in some situations. > They get 20 minutes a year to speak assuming a 2000 hour working year. Congress isn't about making public speeches, its about legislating in congress. Turning congress into a TV show is part of the issue in the first place.
- rat87 1y agoI don't think most Republicans want the destruction of our country so no I don't think he's an accurate reflection
- nkrisc 1y agoAnd yet he dominates the party. How could that be without popular support from the party base?
- Capricorn2481 1y agoBecause Fox, and Newsmax work overtime to convince people that Trump wouldn't do the things he said, and he'll actually do the good things people want. And that if anything bad happens, it's the aftershock of previous administrations (of which, Trump's is exempt, of course). You don't have to be tapped in to see that whatever is said on Fox becomes Republican dogma very quickly. That's why half the country is more concerned that Zelenskyy is, somehow, a dictator, and less concerned that we ushered Russian state media into our white house. It's an embarrassing state we're in, but many voters have been fostered with complete incuriosity with what Republican politicians stand for.
- gtowey 1y ago50 years of attacks on our education systems have yielded exactly what was intended: a nation so poorly educated that they cannot discern truth from fiction anymore.
- sarchertech 1y agoIt’s easy to dominate the party as long as you have 51% of the primary voters, which in 2024 was about 20% of registered Republicans. Essentially if you have the very strong support of 10-15% of the party voters, you’re untouchable.
- chgs 1y agoAhh democracy Of course that also relies on those “I don’t want Trump” republicans actually voting for him. But let’s assume that all happens and it’s not the fault of republicans because they are apethetic. How do you explain the congress and senate members who back him?
- mindslight 1y agoBy my reckoning, Trump is just the reactionary talk radio monster of Limbaugh, Gingrich, and others finally escaping its cage. They'd get people all riled up with low-information rage against the gubmint, and then dial it back just enough to herd them to the booth to vote for establishment republicans. The main way the party has morphed is that the inmates have finally taken over the asylum.