Trump is not reviving economic planning or industrial policy with his tariffs. Just because the US needed to re-industrialise, and just because protectionism would have been part of any re-industrialisation policy does not mean that Trump's policy is not phenomenally short sighted.

The simple fact is that without imposition of

1. Maximum import quotas (differentiated by good)
2. Capital export controls
3. A strong welfare program
4. An expansionary fiscal budget
5. Nationalisation of key industries

It is practically impossible for the US to re-industrialise. And each of these policies is critical because

1. Import quotas can directly limit the quantity of goods coming in unlike tariffs which have huge distortions effects and have a difficult to predict outcome
2. Preventing the outflow of dollars prevents people from cheating Import quotas or tariffs. Preventing the outflow of machinery allows that to be invested in your country.
3. This is needed to create a workforce that is actually healthy and smart enough to fix the economy.
4. This is needed to run your economy to its physical limits rather than artificially created financial ones.
5. This is needed because re-industrialisation requires the bourgeois class yo give up on a lot of profits, so you need to take control of industries away from them.

"He didn't shit in my mouth for no reason, there has to be a reason for this poop to be in my mouth so I'm going to eat it without question. I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt"

yes, pushing as much of the workforce into unemployment as possible and slapping huge taxes on everything people need to survive is totally the recipe for building bright future. don't forget to fire all the scientists, because their research doesn't jive with your ossified religious structures. feudal economics ass brain.

fuckin' maga losers can't even keep their story straight.

Holy shit an actual unironic Maga hog. You can be today's pain piggy until I feel like reenacting old yeller

the US will be in a much better position

the position? on its hands and knees

HOG IS BACK IN SEASON FOLKS!

Trump is doing what the other politicians didn't have the courage to do

Do what, exactly?

the way they've been doing things the past 30 years is unsustainable

I mean yeah capitalism is unsustainable

Oh and also

That's wild work to just walk in here. You may want to consider Weenie Hut Jr.

I will agree that I don't think most American politicians have what it takes to press the Destroy Empire Button

This is the kind of person who thinks it’s us who “DoEsN’t uNdErStAnD bAsIc EcOnOmIcS!”

You’re right that what’s been going on the last 30 years is unsustainable. But what you’ve gotten the last years has been full-on, uncut pure capitalism and Trump is just trying to solve that with even MORE capitalism. Yeah sure that should work…

Here's how you can tell America is winning:

Oh also

Ah yes, a collapsed economy and destruction of the work force and access to trade definitely is going to help the US. Definitely, I believe this because I’m delusional

Post hog