Just smoke and mirrors.
Anything that is imported is done sow because it is unavailable or prohibitively expensive. So! The costs of everything that American businesses need internationally to grow will go way up one way or another. Catastrophic for the smaller players. If they pay 20% more (assuming those tariffs are enforced and collected at a 100% rate), that extra 20% will go to the government and big business (which effectively own the government) and the rich get even richer.
Assuming this goes the way people who know economics know it will, the US economy will tank, and bail outs will go out. The last time this happened (with Trump!) the overwhelming majority of those bail out dollars stayed with corporations and rich folks and didn’t make it anywhere close to the people.
He wants to crash the economy so that wealth divide gets even more immense, again.
This is what happens when people fall for hype from a proven snake oil shill, the fiscally uneducated choose the leader, and being a bully is disguised by being tough.
if you are right bro, I hope you are wrong... But, if you are right, then it's civil war... there is just no way people would put up with this shit
I am not so sure about that. They bought his lies and stupidity in the campaign and will most likely buy them when he blames any negative results on Sleepy Joe, immigrants or someone else.
Not to beleaguer the conversation but can you imagine what would happen if Mexico and Canada became part of the US like he is saying should happen? First of all he couldn't tariff them anymore. Second, all those "illegals" from the south he loves to demonize would suddenly be citizens and he would have to sort out a rickety infrastructure of people who would rebel against the laws. Third, Canada is mostly like the west coast in its voting. With all those new democrats, they would never win an election again.
Such embarrassingly ignorant knee-jerk sentiments with zero thought about the future and their effects.