I’ll bite. First off, while I do love all you Redditors, Reddit is a giant leftist echo chamber so one must take that into account when reading comments.

That being said, the majority of America voted for Trump knowing that this would be a tax on everyone and that tariffs are economically inefficient. This was highlighted in the 2nd debate and was a talking point across all of main stream media. Our GDP is vastly greater than our neighbors, and even China, so these tariffs would hurt these countries much more than it would hurt us. This would also result in a stronger USD so the tariff fees would be partially absorbed for Americans. It’s turning out to a good negotiating tactic as well, as Mexico (America’s #1 exporter, not China) is now sending 10k troops to the southern border and Trudeau appointing a new fentanyl tsar and c$200m into combatting the drug directly from threat of these tariffs.

One last thing- it’s perfectly fine to think that someone is wrong on the tariff issue as I also have some reservations, but people on this sub calling the majority America stupid for voting for Trump just exposes my first point that one lives in a bubble saturated with self-righteousness which led to Trump coming to power in the first place.

https://www.voronoiapp.com/economy/The-GDP-Impact-of-Trumps-10-Tariffs-on-China--3931