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Spot on. I think he actually knows exactly what he’s doing but will keep playing the part of the bombastic dotard. He’s crashing USA on purpose,— yes for the billionaires, for Project 2025, and for Pooty.

The real way to "Make America Great Again"

He can't stop lying, it's all he knows how to do.

Because the Democrats exist as a controlled opposition party. They aren't there to make your life better, they are there to funnel progressive energy into a harmless movement.

He literally raised the taxes on basically everyone that makes less than $300k and gave billionaires another tax cut because he did that in his first term too.

Democrats still can't figure out their messaging.

Here in Germany, one of the left wing parties (literally "The Left") has been putting up election posters with lines like "If your town is getting flooded, the rich are boarding their yachts", "If your heating is too expensive, someone's making coal" (making bank), "If your grocery trip is too expensive, a corporation is cashing in" and such. I found that a refreshing sight.

(Mind, some of their positions are contentious too and this isn't an uncritical endorsement. I just felt the posters were fitting.)

Because unfortunately the only thing the Democrats are good at is failing miserably at being good politicians. Those of us in the US are stuck between choosing a party of feckless, stupid, corpo shills and a party of straight up fascists :(

Twist ending: Trump comes out as the ultimate leftist neoglobalist. His entire life has been dedicated to cultivating the most unabashed narcissistic piss baby entitled con man personality, as a front, just so he can convince America to share its wealth and power, collapse American hegemony, and permanently destroy conservatism. He's the only one that has the special Yank whisperer powers to convince an entire nation of dumbfucks to act against their own self interest.

At this point nothing would surprise me.

The MAGA brand, at it's heart, is just saying your policies loudly over and over again and calling anyone who disagrees with you stupid.

This has been wildly effective again a liberal establishment that only knows how to triangulate between whatever two ideas a pair of TV talking heads are yelling at one another.

He's referring to how the US was incredibly tariff heavy between 1789 and the early 1900s. During this time, there was little to no industry in the US and they imported most of their stuff from Britan, which obviously wasn't something they were too happy about. The new country went hard with the tariffs and it helped the country grow its own domestic industries.

Of course, it's not the 1800s anymore and expecting that implementing the same government policies from that time will make the country better is idiotic. This is a way to fund tax breaks to billionaires and corporations by heavily taxing the average American and having them think it's patriotic.

Also, World War II was perhaps the biggest gift for America's economy in their history. It took them from the economic slump of the Great Depression into a booming war economy that allowed it to recover. Such an economic boom likely won't ever happen again, unless the US openly declares war on another country.

Because when he says "Wealthy again", he doesn't mean you.

Tariffs essentially mean you're paying more for everything that you buy, which then goes into the corporations coffers, and the billionaires/robber barons get richer. THAT is what Trump means by the country being "wealthy again". He means the billionaires. He doesn't care if it's his own middle class paying for it.

I maintain that they do. They just don't care. I goal is to crash the economy and cause a collapse like the USSR had. Then these rich fucks will restructure the government and Rob us blind while they do it. Not the Republicans or democrats. The people with money that are lining their pockets.

He has also unintentionally referenced what Jackson did to ensure the creation of the deepest, by percentage not raw dollars, and longest depression in US history. Last time we paid off all the federal debt, it took us almost 4 decades to fix that mistake. Without other countries holding US debt, they don't have any money we accept in trade. US debt is dollars. We don't accept Loonies, Francs, Pounds, Euros, Rubles, or Yuan.

It’s a very important issue.

But I think when you talk about the kind of numbers that I’m talking about, that — because — ~~child care is child care~~ student loans are student loans... It’s something, you have to have it in this country. You have to have it.

But when you talk about those numbers, compared to the kind of numbers that I’m talking about by taxing foreign nations at levels that they’re not used to, but they’ll get used to it very quickly, and it’s not going to stop them from doing business with us, but they’ll have a very substantial tax when they send product into our country,

Those numbers are so much bigger than any numbers that we’re talking about, including child care, that it’s going to take care. We’re going to have — I look forward to having no deficits within a fairly short period of time, coupled with the reductions that I told you about on waste and fraud and all of the other things that are going on in our country.

-Trump

TL;DR: He has no idea

Q-tips.

The silver lining is that this isn't going to work and the clown car is going to crash so hard that there won't be able to redress the failure before the working class people who naively believed them.

No, the wealthiest country in the U.S.A