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The Trump team doesn’t seem to understand the severity of what they’ve done to the economy. Shipping volume is cratering and warehouses are being depleted. People are going to notice the upcoming price hikes and shortages no matter how the numbers are shuffled around on the purchase order.

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They understand. They are meeting their goals. Their goal isn’t the continued stability of the USA.

Oh it's a lot worse than that. Breaking decades-long international agreements unilaterally, and with insults and threats, means that any future trust and credibility has been destroyed. So even when the orange man is gone, it'll take many years to rebuild those relationships if ever.

Long term I think this may be good for the 95% of us non-Americans. It’s forcing us out of a cozy minima, building new supply chains and trading partners. All while everyone is eager to find someone else to buy and sell to, which makes it easier. Maybe it’ll be a net positive for the world as long as he doesn’t destroy the world in the process.

In a way this represents a redistribution of wealth away from the rich, which is what I think a lot of people want (though maybe they’d wish it wasn’t away from them)

I do not get how this is a redistribution of wealth away from the rich (rich spend a very small percentage of their income, middle class and poor people spend almost all of their income on necessities and maybe a bit of fun, so at the end of the day rich will come ahead)

This does none of that. The rich will only get richer, that is the trajectory, until there is a civil war. In the meantime this is only going to hurt the middle class on down and they will finally come to realize their orange "benefactor" is actually a stooge for powers much smarter than him who want to see the USA and democracy utterly fail.

They're talking about non-Americans. The rest of the world. We are all looking for new trading partners now.

It will surely hurt Americans.

It's hard to destroy international trade without destroying international trade in the process.

But it will get better later you see. You just have to believe harder.

Just like one more tax cut for the rich and they'll be satisfied and create a swath of well paying middle class jobs for the rest of us.

Heh, I think I get your sarcasm. The problem with "later" is that we got 1 life to live, and if "later" means that I've gotta wait 10 years, sorry-not-gonna-wait.

As for harder.. nah.. we got history books telling us how these things play out (not well).

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