Summary
A new WalletHub poll reveals that 74% of Americans believe Donald Trump’s proposed tariffs will worsen inflation, which remains a major concern for most households.
Trump’s plan includes significant tariffs—up to 60% on Chinese goods and 20% on other imports—to protect American jobs and address issues like fentanyl production and border security.
Experts warn these tariffs could increase consumer prices, with middle-income families potentially losing $2,500 annually.
Analysts caution Trump’s plans may face political hurdles in Congress despite his economic-focused campaign promises.
We can all agree that polling is completely meaningless now yeah? It obviously has zero correlation with reality.
I don’t think he’s planning on worrying about polls ever again.
American Voters soon to get bad news that Trump does not give a fuck about them.
The only poll that mattered was on November 5, 2024.
He has absolutely no reason to care now
Let him do this tariff thing. Maybe people will finally learn how “good” he and his party is with money when the US economy is completely ruined.
Republicans have been tanking the economy my entire life. Their voters do not learn
I understand the appeal of “teaching them a lesson”, purely for spiteful reasons. But there are problems with that approach:
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You can teach a child never to put his hand on the burner by putting his hand on the burner. He’ll learn alright, but he’ll also have a nasty burn. Similarly, you don’t want people to learn the dangers of populism and extreme right by letting the extreme-right populist do stupid shit and wreck their lives.
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We who didn’t vote for the dangerous populist live in the same country as those who did: even if we wanted to let the dangerous populist hurt them to teach them a lesson, he’ll hurt us too in the process.
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History always repeat itself: even if everybody learns a hard lesson after Trump is done wrecking the economy - or worse - our children, or our children’s children will invariably elect another Trump some day. So we might as well do our best to limit the damage each time.
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Probably not, they’ll still find a way to put the blame on others.
I mean, people are still fueling the flames now for not voting Democrat because AOC is being shafted by the establishment, ignoring the bigger picture. When the GQP proves to be far, far worse, they will still be spouting something akin that both sides are the same. Part of it has to do because propaganda campaigns plays both sides and this is the way the side that could vote Democrat is played nowadays.
It’s almost like maybe we shouldn’t have elected the guy.
Seriously…. If 74% think his economic plan is bad, and yet a majority said that ‘the economy’ was the biggest reason for who they chose…. How?
They just said “the economy” because they don’t want to admit it’s racism
If I learnt anything recently, “polls” quotes on Lemmy and reddit mean jackshit.
Has he ever given a flying fuck. He’s a complete moron.
“could” increase consumer prices? Really? Still not sure whether they will actually increase, if tarriffs are implemented?
Are we going to pretend he gives a shit? He doesn’t. He got what he wanted, and he can’t be elected again (barring him fucking our systems so severely that he manages to force a third term on us). He’s going to wreck the justice system to avoid any consequences for his actions after his term, and he could very well kick the bucket while he’s in office anyway (dude’s got KFC gravy for blood).
He doesn’t care. He no longer has to. He can play his country-destroying games with impunity. He has no reason to give a single fuck what the American people want.
Oh it’s deeper than that, it’s money coming out of our pockets slipping through a third party and going back into the government offers. It’s an extra tax on goods by proxy. He then has a fresh revenue stream without any earmarks on it.
I don’t think he cares as much about the tariffs, but I am quite sure tariffs on Mexico and Canada were Elonia’s idea
I mean he enacted tarrifs on Canada and Mexico in his first term so it’s not like it’s not something he’s been thinking about.
No, he just re-did the NAFTA, and it’s not better.
156,302,318 voters voted out of 244,666,890 eligible. 77,266,856 people voted for tRump. That’s 167,400,034 eligible voters who did not vote for tRump. So yeah…that tracks.
That’s shocking
Non-voters don’t matter as far as the political system we’re discussing is concerned so why do we spend so much time talking about them? How many of them there are and the reasons they don’t vote are both entirely irrelevant.
Nah, with the current political climate, if you didnt vote, you voted for trump. Meaning well over half our country voted for trump.
74% of Americans believe Donald Trump’s proposed tariffs will worsen inflation
How about not voting the guy in then?
I was told the election was about the economy.
I was repeatedly told on Lemmy that it was about genocide.
That’s a term I haven’t heard in a long time.
Weird how people aren’t talking about the major shortcomings of the democratic candidate anymore. I wonder why that might be.
If Kamala was anti trans rights you’d be sitting here like “why doesnt anyone talk about trans rights anymore, those damned russians at it again”. No, it’s tablestakes that the right is awful. You’re on a left leaning platform, most people here oppose the genocide. Obviously there was going to be vocal pushback on how your candidate sucked on an issue that basic.
Society moved on
SocietyRussians moved on
I was also repeatedly told on Lemmy that it was about BlUEMaGA.
I was told it was about immigation
As often as people beat that drum, it’s nothing but an excuse for most. They don’t have any actual thoughts or opinions on the economy. Just voting on vibes.
I think it’s that and “the grass is greener” fallacy. “I’m upset with things now so I’ll vote for somebody different because it might be better.”
The Behavioral Theory of the Firm gives me the ick.
It was. Ruining it, that is.
Surprise!
They voted because of “woke” and immigrants. A guy on social media told them those are the real problems we face.
I can’t believe how little we are acknowledging that social media is currently being used to manipulate voters not just in US but also in Europe. Why people think that what happened in Romania didn’t also happen in US? And is not happening in other European countries?
half of the respondents don’t care, because it hurts minorities and immigrants more.
If the voting public were not handcuffed to the two party system by First-past-the-post voting, perhaps they would have chosen someone else.
Crazy?! If only someone had said something!!!
What American jobs is he protecting? We DON’T HAVE ANY manufacturing in the US to speak of anymore. At best we assemble stuff here that is made for n China. Except for car companies, what true industry is left?
The American car manufacturers moved their production to Mexico, meaning they’ll rise the prices on them due to the tariffs. And from what I read somewhere (and I can be completely wrong), the only car manufacturer that produces the car in America is one of the Japanese ones (Hyundai, Toyota etc). Still funny to think that “Japanese” cars are made in America, and “American” cars are made in Mexico 😂
Hyundai is Korean.
Tesla has two factories in the US.
Very true! Forgot about them (and I have a Tesla 🤣🤣🤣 obligatory fuck musk). I think my mind was on ICE cars only.
Right there with you. Mine is 5 years old with about 110k miles. Hopefully in 5 years there will be a compelling car that I like. But it could be an RV. I know a guy that electrifies RAM vans with Tesla battery, drive train, computer etc. No supercharging but can DCFC at EA, etc.
NAFTA. Or “the great big sucking sound” spoken of by H Ross Perot, the rich guy that owned EDS.
“Get out and vote! Just this time. You won’t have to do it anymore! Four more years, you know what? It’ll be fixed, it’ll be fine, you won’t have to vote anymore.” - Donald Trump, July 26th 2024
He meant it when he said that. He doesn’t give a single shit what polling says about his plans. Americans already gave him what he wanted and thus no longer serve a purpose to him. He’s going to get his tariffs no matter how much it fucks over the useful idiots that voted for this fascist dictatorship and there’s nothing you can do about it. Because that’s just what happens in a fascist dictatorship, so you’re going to have to start getting used to it.
I believe he will aggravate people enough to riot, declare martial law, stay in power indefinitely a la some of these other clowns running some of these other countries into the ground.
Oh no, in light of this maybe he won’t be elected anymore
Oh wait
