[ToDougie]

Explaining the minutia does not make for the best campaign trail rhetoric. But I can assure you, after speaking extensively in person with members of the Trump trade team, that their strategy is deep and sophisticated.

When he speaks of broad-based tariffs, he is using one of his framing techniques that he unironically explains in the Art of the Deal.

With all that said, the tariffs have me concerned, but allowing our industrial base to continue to evaporate has me more concerned.

[andsoitis]

> But I can assure you, after speaking extensively in person with members of the Trump trade team, that their strategy is deep and sophisticated.

What is it?

[ryan_lane]

History has shown us that Trump does not have "deep and sophisticated" plans. He has campaign rhetoric that sounds good to ignorant people, and then blindly moves into that plan. The trade wars with China required a bail out of farmers and is one of the things that helped fuel inflation, for example.

> he unironically explains in the Art of the Deal

He didn't write that book. Based on his numerous failed businesses and his history of poor negotiations (Afghanistan as a very obvious example), we should be operating on the assumption that he isn't actually good at this, and pray his advisors are.

> With all that said, the tariffs have me concerned, but allowing our industrial base to continue to evaporate has me more concerned.

Then you should have been happy with Biden, who worked towards things like the CHIPS act, which moved manufacturing of critical supply chain back to America.

The economist, the financial times, and large numbers of economists have said that his plans are going to fuel inflation and will reduce GDP. Elon Musk said we should be prepared to make sacrifices. People are telling you what's coming, and that's what you should be concerned about.

[ToDougie]

You convinced me.

Blaming Trump for Biden giving the Taliban 80 billion dollars in military equipment is about what I expected.

[seanmcdirmid]

Trump negotiated the terms of the handover before Biden took office. It was just damage control from then on, with most of the troops already removed before day one of his term, his only option was to bring many back to secure that equipment, and the MAGA types would have blown an even larger gasket over that.