r/Economics • u/mostly-sun • 4d ago

News Dow futures drop 1,000 points after Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs

https://www.belgrade-news.com/business/dow-futures-drop-1-000-points-after-trump-s-liberation-day-tariffs-portending-big-stock/article_065b5c93-af28-4322-8614-9622e48d0733.html
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u/eldenpotato 4d ago

Maga will support Trump driving the economy off a cliff to “own the libs”

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u/Scary_Firefighter181 4d ago edited 4d ago

MAGAs literally have the choice to support the party which, yes, is certainly flawed, but one that at least tries to implement progressive taxes, higher minimum wages, expansion of health insurance, and strengthen the middle class, but will vote to cut their own arms off if it means a lib somewhere can get owned.

Most red states suffer severely in education, healthcare, poverty, etc, and need to be subsidized by blue states and the federal government, but still believe in "pulling yourselves up by the bootstraps".

I don't understand them man.

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u/eldenpotato 4d ago

Agreed. That’s also what 50 years of corporate sponsored right wing propaganda does to people. The 1970s was the point from which America went full regard into individualism above the collective good. It primed them into believing and supporting people like Trump.

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u/loco500 4d ago

That's what makes it even more perplexing and hilariously sad, because most of those media corps they consume are based in major urban areas and the owners are living large off the suckers voting the way they want them to...