• FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
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    Savvy countries will discover there’s a way to mitigate the harm incurred by Trump’s tariffs

    They already have. It takes 1.5 to 2 years for trade deals to be negotiated and then put into effect. In the coming years when these deals take effect, and trade is routing itself around the US as much as possible rather than through it, people in the US are going to learn a very difficult economic lesson.

    On the plus side, maybe the notion of American Exceptionalism will diminish a bit, which is long overdue.

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      people in the US are going to learn a very difficult economic lesson.

      And they will all blame whichever Dem happens to be in the white house because they all have the memories of goldfish.

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        Not if said Dem actually does something about it. (Unlikely)

        Problem is that, if we elect a Democrat, it will be a fabulously wealthy person with no empathy or understanding of the working class and working poor, so the likelihood that they will do anything about it is minimal. Remember when Obama had the balls to walk into Flint, pretend to drink a glass of water, and tell all of those people whose water had been poisoned that everything was a-okay? That’s what I mean. Zero empathy.