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.
poll reveals that 74% of Americans believe Donald Trump’s proposed tariffs will worsen inflation,
Where the fuck were those people in November??
Naval gazing, believing what they were told?
There was also an epic campaign of Voter suppression from repubs.
Yup, there definitely was. You could see it in the oh so unbiased BoTh SiDeS aRe ThE sAmE coverage from supposed left wing MSM, hint: there is no left MSM as there is no left in the States, it is either right of centre or full blown right wing anger politics with empty non answers.
It won’t. His Congressional majority is completely servile, and none of them care what the American people think. Their only focus is on looting and sabotage.
Too bad the poll that matters already happened.
Perhaps they should have thought about that before voting for a lunatic.
You don’t understand though. They really had to stick it to minorities and women, their every day be damned.
It’s almost like they think if those people have less happiness then they will have more. It’s the same nonsense that underlies trickle down economics, a childlike belief that things won’t be held onto by the ruling class with a vice-like grip.
We can all agree that polling is completely meaningless now yeah? It obviously has zero correlation with reality.
It was an election season where the race was polling around 50/50 pretty much throughout. Even when one candidate had a lead, with margins of error, no they didn’t. A ~50% probability of losing is huge, even if many polls did show her slightly ahead. Consider a 20-sided die. 9 sides are red, 11 are blue. You wouldn’t be surprised if you rolled red.
News media has no idea how to talk about polls because they don’t want to talk about probability, they want to talk about which number is bigger as if it’s a scoreboard. I didn’t want him to win, but the polls weren’t wrong.
Why? The polls showed Trump winning and he won, if anything they got more accurate.
I don’t think he’s planning on worrying about polls ever again.
Doesn’t he at least have concepts of a plan for that?
Not one you’d like…
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.
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
Looking at what Trump is planning, you have seen nothing yet.
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.
It is not spiteful. I’m looking at this from the outside (as far as anyone can be with a world-dominating economy like the US), and I’ve given up any hope that Americans as such would learn without really, really painful lessons that manage to pass even through the thick skulls of the MAGA-heads. I don’t wish anyone to suffer, but at the moment I cannot see any way for this lesson to set in without it.
That innocent people are hurt is horrible. But as only a smaller number of citizens have voted for the smart alternative, those who didn’t vote and those who voted for Trump together are the majority. It could have been prevented if enough people had gotten their asses out of their houses - but that did not happen. And the death wish for the US was strong - Hitler only had about 33% of the votes and had to resort to political tricks to get where Trump was carried to by a majority of the voters. Think about that.
And yes, history repeats itself. You were extremely lucky to skip a few cycles - in comparison to e.g. Europe - but the signs were there for a long time, and way to few people cared. Maybe we all get lucky and it “just” turns into a 1929+ depression, focused primarily on the US.
Your second point only applies to people who voted against him. If you didn’t vote you voted for him.
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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.
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.
and he can’t be elected again (barring him fucking our systems so severely that he manages to force a third term on us).
That’s easy, create a national crisis (massive inflation + riots) and have SCOTUS suspend the 22nd amendment
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.
And nobody gives one flying fuck about anyone who can’t be bothered to vote. If your to lazy to get off your ass and vote you have absolutely no right to complain about anything cause politically you don’t matter and you get what your lazy ass asked for.
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.
If you don’t use your voice (vote), you get lost in the chorus
That’s shocking
Has he ever given a flying fuck. He’s a complete moron.
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.
It was and they won! Now with Trump in office no more Palestinians will suffer! The humanitarian crisis is over, god-emperor himself said he wants Israel to “finish what they started”. He must mean that war needs to end, what other interpretation could possibly be accurate? I thank Jesus personally every night for helping the man win who wants to jack inflation right back up after it’s finally started taming. Our economy is in the right hands!
I’m sure he will help end the war and the suffering. But in the monkey’s paw style.
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 heard it was about the price of eggs.
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.”
and “the grass is greener” fallacy. “I’m upset with things now so I’ll vote for somebody different because it might be better.”
Canada is on our way toward falling into that same trap.
It’s frustrating to see the right wing party so far ahead in the polls when they have nothing to offer except “We’re not that other guy”.
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?
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.
half of the respondents don’t care, because it hurts minorities and immigrants more.
“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.
Crazy?! If only someone had said something!!!
