Trump's Tariff Insanity: A Classic Case Of The Gullible Voting Against Their Own Best Interests

by Noah

A quick examination of the list of businesses that will be the first to be damaged by Señor Trumpanzee's market roiling tweets and tariff insanity illustrates yet another sad case of people voting against their own best interests. Along with Midwestern businesses related to the auto industry, the Midwestern and Southern farm regions that so strongly supported and still support Trump, all bought into his con and now they are even more at risk of going bankrupt than they were before. This is especially true of small family farms, so many of which have been owned by the same families for generations; families that built a livelihood and a future out of nothing but the land they owned and plenty of hard work.

When the farms and other businesses of these areas go under, the vulture banks, vulture capitalists like Trump, and agribusiness corporations will offer them 10 cents on the dollar (or less) for their property. In many cases, they will just take it through foreclosure. It's not like this sort of thing hasn't happened before in our history. Even the banking scams that cheated so many of our fellow citizens circa 2008 are part of the same moral criminality of Trump and his degenerate ilk in the 1 percent class. The most bizarre thing to me is that people never learn. In this case, they didn't even see it coming even when they were reminded during the 2016 campaign of Trump, speaking in 2006 of a possible real estate collapse, said he liked it when the markets go down because that's a great time to buy up real estate; your real estate. Here he is back then:

I sort of hope that happens, because then people like me would go in and buy.

Context may not be everything but you can bet that the anti-American Trump and his bank and agribusiness backers are rubbing their greedy little paws in glee and the anticipation of a well-planned major land grab. They don't just laugh and smirk when they sell off public lands and chunks of national parks to eachother for fun and profit. Like a 3000 year old Sequoia or a pristine stream, the family farmer matters nothing to them. That family farmer served his purpose on election day.