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Trump’s tariffs are causing a temporary dip in the stock market. If tariffs are so bad, why aren’t they upset about all these nations that impose them on our products? In other news, Trump’s plan is already working as intended. Israel, India, the EU, Japan, Vietnam, and Cambodia all plan to drop tariffs if Trump agrees to do the same.

Liz Wheeler posted the following on X –

Maybe just maybe you’ve been propagandized about tariffs by the same uniparty elitists who imposed deadly open borders on you.

If your reaction to tariffs is “oh no, it’s basically a tax, stuff is gonna get more expensive” — then buckle up.

Here’s the truth about tariffs.

At the onset of “global free trade” we were told three things:

1. Trading with China, NAFTA, & globalization would promote “democracy” around the world.
2. Products would be cheaper.
3. Life would be better.

Well, the first thing sure didn’t happen. The communist Chinese are as despotically authoritarian & inhumane as ever. And look at the EU crackdown on speech, or our own govt weaponized against us—sheesh.

Products did get cheaper—what at what cost?

We were promised that our qualify of life would be improved by cheap products— but did it? Nope. The opposite happened.

In fact, millions of Americans lost their jobs. To be specific, between 2000 and 2017, 5.5 million American manufacturing jobs left the country.

That means millions of Americans—mostly men—were suddenly out of work.

And what happened? What happens when the jobs are gone? When men want to provide for their families but can’t? When men lose the dignity of work?

As we soon found out, many of these men turned to drugs—drugs that are readily available in this country thanks to the “free trade” politicians who deliberately left our borders open & then turned a blind eye to the trafficking of deadly fentanyl across our border from the very countries—China, Mexico, Canada—we were supposed to benefit from trading with.

Between 1999 and 2021, more than 640,000 Americans died from an opioid overdose.

Why?

Because entire communities — places like where Vice President JD Vance is from — were hollowed out as their manufacturing jobs were shipped overseas. And then the same countries who stole our jobs sent fentanyl across our borders to kill us.

Tariffs not only stop impertinent countries from taking advantage of us—which is a big deal. Tariffs will stop the flow of fentanyl into our neighborhood—which is a moral imperative. If countries don’t stop sending drugs—they get slapped with crushing tariffs.

President Trump understands leverage and knows these tariffs will force such countries to crack down.

And let’s talk about cheap products. Is the trade—pun intended—worth it? Is a lead-poisoned purse from SHEIN for two bucks worth surrendering our supply chains to foreign nations that hate us? Do you want to rely on China for antibiotics? Do you think it’s smart to rely on Taiwan for semiconductors? Think of the empty shelves in grocery stores during Covid. Our supply chains are FRAGILE. It’s a national security threat to rely on foreign countries for things our families need. Tariffs help bring back manufacturing & reliance to our own country, our own states, our own communities.

Other countries will cave. They have to. They rely on the American economy too much to refuse Trump. And they can’t wait him out—he’s President for four years.

Trump is the perfect person to use tariffs as the means to an end—an actual better quality of life, security and prosperity for the American people that we were promised by the lying elitists that Trump is now reclaiming for you.

In summary, I love tariffs. Stop freaking out. This is gonna be awesome.

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