Source: Center for a Stateless Society
by James C Wilson
“For nearly a decade now, Donald Trump has been promoting tariffs as a tool of choice for solving America’s economic woes …. one would think a typical Trump supporter, having listened to his political diatribes for the better part of a decade now, would know all about tariffs, what they are, how they work, and who pays them. I decided to test this hypothesis on some of the Trump supporters in my life. I simply asked, ‘What’s a tariff?’ Unsurprisingly, none of them had even the slightest idea how tariffs work. To reiterate, everyday Trump supporters, broadly speaking, do not know what tariffs are. Certainly, the professional Trump apologists in the right-wing media know what they are, but they have completely confused and misled their audiences to the point of incoherence on this topic.” (12/13/24)