Summary
A new WalletHub poll reveals that 74% of Americans believe Donald Trump’s proposed tariffs will worsen inflation, which remains a major concern for most households.
Trump’s plan includes significant tariffs—up to 60% on Chinese goods and 20% on other imports—to protect American jobs and address issues like fentanyl production and border security.
Experts warn these tariffs could increase consumer prices, with middle-income families potentially losing $2,500 annually.
Analysts caution Trump’s plans may face political hurdles in Congress despite his economic-focused campaign promises.
poll reveals that 74% of Americans believe Donald Trump’s proposed tariffs will worsen inflation,
Where the fuck were those people in November??
Naval gazing, believing what they were told?
There was also an epic campaign of Voter suppression from repubs.
Yup, there definitely was. You could see it in the oh so unbiased BoTh SiDeS aRe ThE sAmE coverage from supposed left wing MSM, hint: there is no left MSM as there is no left in the States, it is either right of centre or full blown right wing anger politics with empty non answers.
Voting for the leopards they were certain would not eat their face.
Not voting. If we combine harris and non voters we get a similar number to the poll. Of course that’s a major simplification, but it still has something.
They were told to be angry at trans kids in sports competitions, so their two braincells were busy.
I wonder if a follow up question is in order. Like do they also expect to make even more money than prices will go up.
That’s the only vaguely plausible answer I can think of. Say hypothetically they think prices will go up 20%, but they somehow think they will be getting 40% more so it’s fine and the price increase only serves to further dissuade immigrants or something.
If they actually think the retail price of stuff basically doubling won’t cause people to buy a lot less, they’re nuts.
The only poll that mattered was on November 5, 2024.
American Voters soon to get bad news that Trump does not give a fuck about them.
Too bad the poll that matters already happened.
I don’t think he’s planning on worrying about polls ever again.
Doesn’t he at least have concepts of a plan for that?
Not one you’d like…
We can all agree that polling is completely meaningless now yeah? It obviously has zero correlation with reality.
It was an election season where the race was polling around 50/50 pretty much throughout. Even when one candidate had a lead, with margins of error, no they didn’t. A ~50% probability of losing is huge, even if many polls did show her slightly ahead. Consider a 20-sided die. 9 sides are red, 11 are blue. You wouldn’t be surprised if you rolled red.
News media has no idea how to talk about polls because they don’t want to talk about probability, they want to talk about which number is bigger as if it’s a scoreboard. I didn’t want him to win, but the polls weren’t wrong.
Good explanation
Why? The polls showed Trump winning and he won, if anything they got more accurate.
Even if they didnt show him winning, a poll saying its roughly 50/50 is like saying to someone your going to flip a coin and then them being flabbergasted when it comes out tails, what did you expect, its probability, not the current vote percentage.
How’s this news? That’s literally what MAGA was selling the entire time. The so called “Temporary Hardships”. They promised and they’re going to deliver some economic hardships, that was the sales pitch and people voted for it. Anybody shocked is just not paying attention.
Hardships for OTHER people. You know who I mean.
Has he ever given a flying fuck. He’s a complete moron.
It’s almost like maybe we shouldn’t have elected the guy.
Seriously…. If 74% think his economic plan is bad, and yet a majority said that ‘the economy’ was the biggest reason for who they chose…. How?
They just said “the economy” because they don’t want to admit it’s racism
By economy they just mean the price of things that they regularly buy or the cost of a meal at the Red Lobster. They don’t want their taxes to increase and by taxes they just mean income tax.
The best way I can put it is that these aren’t serious people. They have very little understanding of how the systems that keep them alive actually work. Look at taxes and the messaging from conservative’s “they are stealing your money.” That’s super easy for someone to understand. Much harder to understand that taxes pay for public services, roads, and clean water.
I’ve got in-laws that stuck their aging parents in public subsidized retirement housing. These guys also vote republican. Lucky for them they live in a blue state with decent retirement care otherwise there is no way they could afford that level of care. We are talking thousands a week for over a decade. Do they have any understanding of how that works? No, not at all they just want to complain about taxes being high.
If I learnt anything recently, “polls” quotes on Lemmy and reddit mean jackshit.
Let him do this tariff thing. Maybe people will finally learn how “good” he and his party is with money when the US economy is completely ruined.
Republicans have been tanking the economy my entire life. Their voters do not learn
Looking at what Trump is planning, you have seen nothing yet.
I understand the appeal of “teaching them a lesson”, purely for spiteful reasons. But there are problems with that approach:
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You can teach a child never to put his hand on the burner by putting his hand on the burner. He’ll learn alright, but he’ll also have a nasty burn. Similarly, you don’t want people to learn the dangers of populism and extreme right by letting the extreme-right populist do stupid shit and wreck their lives.
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We who didn’t vote for the dangerous populist live in the same country as those who did: even if we wanted to let the dangerous populist hurt them to teach them a lesson, he’ll hurt us too in the process.
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History always repeat itself: even if everybody learns a hard lesson after Trump is done wrecking the economy - or worse - our children, or our children’s children will invariably elect another Trump some day. So we might as well do our best to limit the damage each time.
It is not spiteful. I’m looking at this from the outside (as far as anyone can be with a world-dominating economy like the US), and I’ve given up any hope that Americans as such would learn without really, really painful lessons that manage to pass even through the thick skulls of the MAGA-heads. I don’t wish anyone to suffer, but at the moment I cannot see any way for this lesson to set in without it.
That innocent people are hurt is horrible. But as only a smaller number of citizens have voted for the smart alternative, those who didn’t vote and those who voted for Trump together are the majority. It could have been prevented if enough people had gotten their asses out of their houses - but that did not happen. And the death wish for the US was strong - Hitler only had about 33% of the votes and had to resort to political tricks to get where Trump was carried to by a majority of the voters. Think about that.
And yes, history repeats itself. You were extremely lucky to skip a few cycles - in comparison to e.g. Europe - but the signs were there for a long time, and way to few people cared. Maybe we all get lucky and it “just” turns into a 1929+ depression, focused primarily on the US.
Your second point only applies to people who voted against him. If you didn’t vote you voted for him.
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Probably not, they’ll still find a way to put the blame on others.
I mean, people are still fueling the flames now for not voting Democrat because AOC is being shafted by the establishment, ignoring the bigger picture. When the GQP proves to be far, far worse, they will still be spouting something akin that both sides are the same. Part of it has to do because propaganda campaigns plays both sides and this is the way the side that could vote Democrat is played nowadays.
He has absolutely no reason to care now
“Get out and vote! Just this time. You won’t have to do it anymore! Four more years, you know what? It’ll be fixed, it’ll be fine, you won’t have to vote anymore.” - Donald Trump, July 26th 2024
He meant it when he said that. He doesn’t give a single shit what polling says about his plans. Americans already gave him what he wanted and thus no longer serve a purpose to him. He’s going to get his tariffs no matter how much it fucks over the useful idiots that voted for this fascist dictatorship and there’s nothing you can do about it. Because that’s just what happens in a fascist dictatorship, so you’re going to have to start getting used to it.
I believe he will aggravate people enough to riot, declare martial law, stay in power indefinitely a la some of these other clowns running some of these other countries into the ground.
It won’t. His Congressional majority is completely servile, and none of them care what the American people think. Their only focus is on looting and sabotage.
He said he was gonna.
"But, we didn’t think . . . "
He SAID he was gonna.
"We really didn’t expect "
HE F*CKING SAID HE WAS GONNA!
Crazy?! If only someone had said something!!!
