For the non-Americans here, here's a ground report from the Rust Belt. The average age of the school buildings here is 99 years-old. The public buildings are dilapidated to the point where it made national news when a government employee was injured by an exploding toilet. A bridge literally collapsed during the Biden Administration. You don't need to drive far in any direction to see a shuttered and rotting factory or mill. Our beautiful parks and trails are unsafe to use because violent, homeless drug addicts have sent up tent cities there.
I support the tariffs. America can't keep subsidizing the rest of the world through bad trade deals and foreign aid while American citizens live like this. We need to fix our problems first. If I'm supposed to feel bad about the worldwide disruption, I don't. Nobody in Canada or Mexico or China or the EU or anywhere else felt bad when entire towns in my area were hollowed out. They didn't care about our manufacturing jobs being dismantled and shipped abroad. I'm not sure why I'm expected to feel bad in return.
This is our one chance to restore the American economy. It's a risky one, but I'd rather bet it all on the tariffs and risk failing than continue on with the status quo.