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Why??! Who the hell is this even for?
Domestic producers that don't exist. They think that by doing shit like this manufacturing facilities will spring up out of nowhere. They don't stop to reflect on the fact that the reason china has the capacity it has is because the government built it. But we will never do that here, that would be communism.
Let's set aside the fact that no competent management team would justify a multi billion dollar business case on the back of a tariff that can just as easily be lifted overnight, depending on how polls in Michigan are doing
Seriously, I’m trying to understand why the hell they would do this. It’s like shooting yourself in the foot to spite the shoemaker.
The international supremacy of the US economy relies on dollar hegemony and US imperialist foreign policy. The whole point is to be able to import cheap goods from other countries. If China’s rise is a threat to that then why accelerate the process?
The only rationale I can think of is the Biden admin legitimately thinks the Chinese economy cannot grow without access to the American market and that tariffs have the power to curtail such access. That seems so incredibly naive though for a whole number of reasons. It’s hard to imagine people with that much power are just that obtuse.
Becoming increasingly apparent with their doubling down in eastern europe and the levant
If they were really thinking strategically they would've restrained israel or sought a negotiated end to the ukraine wara long time ago
On the one hand, this is obviously a huge benefit to china and russia. On the other, irrationality is unpredictable danger
The handful of republicans in the US that might change their minds and vote for Joe.
Literally zero republicans like that exist
I know dems claim to think they do
They don't
Socialdemocracy in Poland suicided on similar tactic. They took their voters for granted and kept moving right in order to gain liberal votes. Of course they didn't, and lost their voters in the process, to the point of nearly getting kicked out of parliament itself. The only lesson they learned on this is to become 100% liberal and to openly form a bloc with them.
Succdems gonna succ, the more i look at them (not only in Poland), the more i come to conclusion those people are way too stupid to be even alive, so they aren't stupid, and it's all the perestroika frozen in time.
For the EV and environmental tech companies based in the US. They'll get to suckle like a leech off climate funds, at the most expensive rate possible.