How this auto union leader's support for Trump's tariffs scrambled labor politics again

[TomCADem]

Trump is taking a page out of former Republican Herbert Hoover’s playbook. Herbert Hoover championed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, U.S. legislation (June 17, 1930, which raised import duties to protect American businesses and farmers. Likewise, Trump has been courting union support through his endorsement of similar tariffs. Will Democrats try to jump on the bandwagon like Democrat Debbie Dingell who has endorsed Trump’s protectionist moves? Or, will they try to take a page out of FDR’s playbook who campaigned against the act, and pushed for the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act, which aimed to reduce tariffs and promoted trade?

https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-auto-tariffs-union-workers-0de3e6f328cae87ded425380d0462516

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has once again scrambled the politics of organized labor and the working class with his planned tariffs on auto imports.

The White House is eagerly promoting supportive comments from the nation’s top auto worker union leader, a previous Trump critic who endorsed Democrat Kamala Harris over Trump in 2024. At least a few Democrats from auto-producing states have joined their Republican colleagues in applauding the tariffs that Trump casts as a long-term jobs boost for U.S.-based auto production. Other Democrats, meanwhile, have blasted Trump’s policy, warning that a trade war will drive up inflation and raise costs for all Americans.

Long-term consequences from Trump’s planned 25% tariffs on imported vehicles remain unclear, as does the fallout from additional tariffs he has announced on products coming from Canada, Mexico, China and other U.S. trading partners. But the latest political uproar highlights the ongoing effort by the Republican president to reorient party alliances and voter loyalties in ways that not only explain his 2024 comeback but could reverberate into the 2026 midterms and beyond.

[JohnSJ]

1. It was a big factor in the Great Depression. People argue over this, but the reality is trade wars are inflationary,

create shortages on products we depend upon, cause a significant decline in global trade significantly, cause exports to fall, which impact everything we export, especially farmers.

In the 30's It contributed to the loss of confidence on wall street, and the isolation of the United States, and was a contributory factor in the worldwide depression, and WWII.

"Those who do not learn from history, are doomed to repeat it"

When trump spoke to the NY investors organization during the campaign with such notables as the blowhard larry kudlow, like a bunch of sheep being led to the slaughter, these idiots were applauding and cheering enthusiastically every asinine and idiot thing the jackass trump was saying, even though they knew it was reckless, risky, and idiotic.

On most of the financial outlets some of these so-called expert analysts are still spewing the same nonsense, with some trying to blame President Biden. It is such bullshit. The Biden Administration left the economy in good shape, recovering from the disastrous policies of the first trump administration and its mishandling of the pandemic and economy.

They took a gift horse, and completely discarded it in trump's second term, and the stupidity of the American populace repeated the same thing they did in 2016 by electing him to a second term in 2024.

How stupid can you be? trump and company are now doubling down on everything that caused the problems in his first term.

The American public didn't realize how good they had it, but they are going to find out relatively quickly if they don't change course quickly, and even if they do, the damage done to our reputation among our allies will take a long time to be redeemed. We cannot be trusted anymore.

[eppur_se_muova]

3. One other thing: tariffs are TAXES. They are collected by the gov't, which chooses where the money goes.

It's NOT going to go to the American companies being "protected" by tariffs. It's going to go to ICE to build concentration camps, to "consultants" and contractors who are Turnip-friendly, and as much as possible will go to kickbacks for Turnip's "fund" (his pocket).

Union leaders and Dems who go along with Turnip's tariffs need to explain how any of that is going to help the country.

[uponit7771]

2. That Epstein file is HUGE , the only thing I can figure why these people sell out like that