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VBNMW_Realist

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1. Lack of Information And Cultism

Reply to reACTIONary (Original post)

Fri Jun 19, 2026, 10:08 PM

Jun 19

There are two reasons for this. First, it seems that many Americans wrongly believe that tariffs are paid for by the country. Many studies have shown this is completely false.

Another perhaps less common reason is that for people who are deeply into the cult of Trump, they think it is a good thing because it is the price of patriotism; in other words, these are patriotic tariffs because they are the only way to get jobs back in this country (which they are failing at).

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Why do some Americans support tariffs, even when it costs them? [View all] reACTIONary Jun 19 OP

Lack of Information And Cultism VBNMW_Realist Jun 19 #1

Hurt people, hurt people. OC375 Jun 19 #2

Perhaps people whose jobs they worked at for decades making widgets moved to China or Mexico ? MichMan Jun 19 #3

I think that we are just particularly fucked up as a species. NewHendoLib Jun 19 #4