Coming back to this. It's not just the biggest tax hike in modern history. It was carried out unilaterally by the President (with no approval by Congress), & it's blatantly illegal.Yeah, I thought that’s where this was going:
This needs to be a central part of Democratic messaging. It's King George III shit. Democrats need to act like it.
Again, Trump’s deliberate attempt to damage the US economy is also blatantly illegal. If only the Framers had thought of a mechanism for addressing such conduct….Impeachment? Are you joking? When has that ever worked?
JMM (he is the root of this conversation) was on sounder ground with his suggestion Congress take away the power to impose tariffs. There is a normally pro-Trump group suing to stop the tariffs on the grounds Trump isn’t actually authorized to impose them under the statute he’s using. Which is a legal argument I’m very interested in.
Congress? I don’t even expect Congress to cancel Trump’s tariffs anytime soon. I sooner expect Trump to announce $20 trillion in investments/capitulations flooding America by Monday, and declare victory.
I think the market reaction has him scared shitless. He needs validation, and he needs it yesterday. If the world won’t give it to him, he’ll give it to himself. He’s really not a fighter. Absent large-scale approval, he’s going to make something up and run away.
Congress? Congress has left the building until 2027. Trump is going to spend a lot of time playing golf. Elmo is going to stay and protect his government contracts.
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