The Democrats Won’t Acknowledge the Scale of Trump’s Tariff Mess
The president’s allies are putting up a bigger fight than the opposition party is.
By Jonathan Chait, The Atlantic
Two days after President Donald Trump’s shambolic “Liberation Day” announcement, which set off a full-scale economic meltdown, House Democrats released a video response. It was oddly sedate, almost academic in its nuance. The video featured Representative Chris Deluzio, from western Pennsylvania, who calmly intoned, “A wrong-for-decades consensus on ‘free trade’ has been a race to the bottom” and “Tariffs are a powerful tool. They can be used strategically, or they can be misused.”
As the American public was screaming, “Please, God, no!” the Democrats were calmly whispering, “Yes, but.”
