Norris: Congress ‘Just Doesn’t Make Sense,’ Because They Do Understand How Tariff Is Going to Hit the Average Family
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NORRIS: "Well, you’ve also got people that are running the country who are isolated. You know, you talk about the lack of empathy. I don’t think there is even a lack of understanding of how the average American lives, they are so isolated. They are so in that ivory that that marble tower that they live in, that they really don’t understand the impact that this is going to have. And Donald Trump is somewhat isolated because he doesn’t think he’s going to have to run again if he’s, you know, wearing these having caps that are creative, that, you know, say 20, 28, well, he thinks he would be elected by fiat in some way, but doesn’t have to actually go out and make the case. The thing that is truly hard to understand in this moment is Congress, right? I mean, you know, that’s what just doesn’t make sense to me here, is that they they do live closer to the ground. And we see that when they go to the town halls, we see that when they return to their districts, they do understand how this is going to hit the average family. They do understand how this is already hitting farmers right now that are feeling an awful lot of pain. And yes, they may expect to get some sort of bailout like they did last time, but that’s not a guarantee. And they’re starting to feel the pain. And they do understand how precarious people are. If they have someone in their family who’s sick. Because we haven’t talked about the cost of health care and the uncertainties there, and the fact that the economy is essentially paralyzed. There are so many companies that cannot make a decision right now. They cannot make. They should be right now making decisions about the third quarter and the first quarter of 2026. That’s where we are. Everything is forecasted. Everything is, you know, the decisions about what’s going to be on the on the shelves around Christmas, that’s already that should have already been made. They’re holding their fire right now. They’re holding their powder because there’s so much chaos. And some of these things are understandable. So the de minimis rule, it maybe makes sense to do that because there were concerns about, you know, bad actors using that to send things into the country. But if you were going to do this, in most cases, you wouldn’t see this kind of chaos. You would think about how you would do this. It would be beta tested, it would be pressure tested. You would figure out how to do this and how to create how to how to get rid of all the kinks in the hose before you turn the spigot on full. They’re not doing this. They seem perfectly fine with chaos. They almost seem to thrive on it. And they don’t care. They just don’t care about how it affects regular people. And they have. It’s almost like an adhd kind of thing. And I’m I want to be careful because I don’t want to impugn people who actually have adhd, but in this case, they can’t pay attention to one thing. They create a mess in one room. If you’ve ever, you know, if anybody who’s has a parent who’s been a parent understands this, the kids make a mess in one room and they forget, oh, I was making cookies and I left flour all over the kitchen. Let me go in this room. And, you know, and I’m going to make in this room. And they just sort of forget that they’ve made a mess in one place and have no intention of cleaning that up before they go in, like a bunker bomb and the next sector of the economy and create, you know, problems someplace else and not thinking about the collateral damage that they were creating."
