Batya Ungar-Sargon: We Were All There When Trump Placed Tariffs on China ... Every Economist Said a Toaster Would Cost $300

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UNGAR-SARGON: “You know, the thing that your viewers have to understand is, we were all there in 2018, in 2019, when President Trump put 25% tariffs on Chinese imports of steel and aluminum, and every economist said a toaster is going to cost $300. And guess what? The price of steel and aluminum went up for three months and it came right back down because this is a glorious country full of free market competition within the United States. Donald Trump has done an amazing thing. He turned the GOP into the party of the working class, and working-class voters love tariffs because they make their labor more rewarding for them. They get the American working class higher wages, which they can then use in the marketplace to compete against elites and to actually achieve the American dream, President Trump is teaching a generation of Republicans and business leaders how to build an amazing economy that will lift all boats, that will lift working-class people, as well as the stock market, and that will give the GOP a ruling majority for years and years to come; an economy based on love of country that will make America into the powerhouse of manufacturing, the superpower that it used to be.”