America’s #1 #Progressive talk show host & best selling author @Thom_Hartmann visited #PoliticsDoneRight to discuss #MiddleClass’ plight and his new book The Hidden History of the American Dream: The Demise of the Middle Class―and How to Rescue Our Future.
tariffs
Tariffs & High-Interest Rates aren’t the cure. Brazile owns Priebus. Columbia faculty walks out.
Tariffs and high-interest rates penalize the middle class and the poor for corporate ineptitude. Donna Brazile owns Reince Priebus once again. Columbia faculty walks out for student suspensions & arrests.
Pharmaceutical thuggery, Abortion, tariffs, Iran, Venezuela, and whatever you want to talk about today.
We Americans are so brainwashed that we allow pharmaceutical corporations and other companies to rip us off. Worse, many tend to defend the ideology we think we support even if those we are protecting are thugs and thieves.
Status quo Biden would lose to Trump specifically on tariffs.
It is hard to believe that so many are unable to think through more than one level of indirection. Trump is showing the potential to clobber Democrats using tariffs to counter the status quo, the mythical center.
Democrats could allow Trump’s tariffs a win if they don’t set the narrative.
There are several narratives one can build against the Trump tariffs. Today’s massive stock market drop was a tailor-perfect moment for some grandstanding by Democrats to put them all into the American psyche. They have not so far.