Egg prices are up where I am. I don't give a fuck. Anyone who thought electing Tariff Don would lower prices in the short term is a dumbass. The point of tariffs is to encourage resiting industry to American shores. I pay more for eggs now, my grandchildren don't buy all their steel from China. Fine by me.
The postwar neoliberal consensus has always justified itself with low prices on consumer goods. The Federal Antitrust Commission has always and only considered one thing when evaluating a merger - will it raise prices for consumers? If so, they block it. If not, go right ahead. That's how all the media and all the drugs are owned by three corporations that hate you.
That's why the Democrats are screeching about Shein and eggs, they still think that the cattle will follow them if they can provide low prices. But we've seen what that leads to - mass importation of cheap garbage that doesn't last, from people who hate us. Trump is the only president in thirty years who's even considered making economic decisions with a different goal.
