Tariffs

Nope. Just capitalism doing capitalism things. No need frame the issue as some sort of mass psychosis or cultural pathology when it's clear that this devolution is a response to deteriorating material conditions. Calling fascism a cult is an ideological evasion. It's the liberals' convenient way of characterizing trump as an anomaly as opposed to a predictable symptoms of capitalist crisis. Liberals do this because it allows them to attempt to explain fascism without acknowledging that capitalism itself gives rise to such movements.

There is no Trump cult; there is only textbook, predictable fascism - which leftists have been warning liberals about for decades only to be laughed away. Reap what you sow.

And the way he's talking about annexing other countries and changes opinion and policy on a dime is not a good sign to step into whatever scheme he finally unveils.

Big part of it is his supporters are detached from reality. They have a faith-based belief system.

A lot of his supporters are born Republicans. Their parents voted Republican, and their grandparents. To them voting Republican isn't a choice, it's what's expected of them. They don't participate in the Republican party, they just consume it, like American's consume everything else. Those people will never once question why they're voting that way, it's what their parents did, their community does, and it's what their children will probably do too.

sabotage of education systems, propaganda and tribalism

I still have a hard time understanding how people come to support Trump. Like what led people to become like this?

It is never just one reason, it is a myriad of different reasons compounding and mixing with each other. Intentional dumbing down of population, genuine economic anxiety, wealth inequality, algorithm corralling people into their own information bubble leading to polarisation, etc. It is important to put yourself into one's shoes and think why they think that way. You don't have to agree with the viewpoint you disagree, you just have to understand. Understanding is the key to defeating extremism.

I take great pleasure in seeing Trump paraphernalia being removed from people's homes and cars.

But I honestly can't believe there are still people proudly showing it. Flapping their ignorance and foolishness around for everyone to see. Cover your shame!

People don't seem to vote for a candidate any more.

They vote against the other one...

And that does seem to be something both sides are guilty of. They don't know what they want. They just know what they don't want.

The fact that I even say "both sides" is a sign the political systems have failed.

Three arms!?

Like a gene stealer cultist!!

No that's just how MAGATs look, it's an unfortunate side affect of being inbred.

No, not at all.

They're rejoicing, because the cleansing fire of Atom is at hand!

Ironic, since Manson is also a shit human.

IDK, I kinda like the power pole hovering off in the distance.

You don't like how little Shub-shub in the front there looks?

I think he's kinda cute.

If only they arrested hunter biden.

The better to bare arms with.

Fiscally conservative now means losing unimaginably large amounts of money.

They are co-conspirators.

And the Epstein list. It'll be a list of all of those countries with the highest tariff ones at the top, you'll see.

I knew those penguins were up to no good.

I tried watching some fox in an attempt to understand the other perspective but I just don't, my summary of the 15 minutes of fox was.

• Show clip of democrat politican giving normal speech, not bad not great just a boilerplate speech.
• Proclaim the event was sad and embarassing for that politician without really saying why.
• Claim said politician has certain negative view on subject that was never even mentioned in the clip.
• Rapid fire multiple more strawmans of things the person in the clip never said or even mentioned.
• Claim they're also biassed by bringing up tangentially related event that happened when the republicans were in fact the ones in power.

Most of them are happy right now to “burn it down”.

That's because they are catastrophically stupid people.

The problem isn't that tariffs are being applied. There are many reasons to apply them, such as ensuring local production remains competitive with imports. The problem is that the tariffs are being just thrown up without careful calculation of what they are trying to achieve.

It's not the tariffs, it's the unhinged way in which the US is applying them right now.

No, we don't have any tariffs between countries in the EU for the most part, it's one of the reasons the EU is so great.

The perception would absolutely not be the same, and US companies are also not exempted from paying them. Most people don't understand that tariffs are taxes paid on imports, paid by those who import them. They think tariffs are magical and the money comes from foreigners.

People may start to understand if/when the price hikes start affecting them directly. For now only retirees with stock market holdings have seen a drop.