How Republicans Learned to Love High Prices | Donald Trump’s allies have pivoted from denying that his tariffs will hurt consumers to insisting that consumers should welcome the pain.
How Republicans Learned to Love High Prices
I think it was 7 steps I think it had a "is actually good" second and I'm pretty sure a "You deserved it" last or second to last but I thought the same.
I'm seeing quite a bit of "You deserved it" right now. Lots of "Actually, I just avoid buying things, so now the higher prices don't bother me" cope all over /r/conservative and like-minded reactionary media.
Poverty fetishism, cottage-core influencing, a proliferation of reactionaries in DIY spaces, and always a healthy supply of "we just didn't go far enough" revanchism has been trending for a while, but its seeing a new renaissance with the looming recession.
That's called a cult
I called this in a comment a few weeks ago. It's going to be a badge of honor for some of them.
Republicans in 2025: Paying high taxes on essential goods to Own the Libs!!!!
Shooting themselves in the foot over and over... "Ha! Take that libs!"
(Sooooo much winning /s)
There's a squishy American centrist block that just gets mad any time there's any degree of adversity (or just negative news media on their screens) and decides to vote the most reactionary candidate on the ticket in response.
Conveniently, Democrats have been marching to the right in order to sweep up those votes. Expect a lot of "Republicans are turning American into SOVIET RUSSIA! and we need the free market to fight back!" liberal campaigning in 2026.
They only care because then you'll be captive to buying the shitty products they control in the US. That's the entire grift.
They can't control international goods at lower prices, so they'll force you back to buying from the already wealthy in control of goods and resources here.
Definitely looks like the end game here. Privatize everything and profit off of it in as many ways possible.
To be fair if Trump causes fuel prices to skyrocket he might go down as one of the greenest presidents in recent history.
What if they reduce climate impacts by engineering a global famine?
I think billionaires finally admitted to themselves that the world's economies, ecological systems, and countries population trajectories were fundamentally broken, and our flawed democratic institutions were not cut out for fixing any of these existential problems.
This is part panic, cannibalizing, and power consolidation.
Convince me think isn’t a deranged cult.
So they want the Dollar to be like the Japanese Yen?
I'm certainly welcoming their pain.
GOP then: "i'm voting for trump because he'll make everything cheaper!!!"
GOP now: "REAL americans are happy to overpay for everything for dear great leader trump!!!"
Okay this is not really that relevant here...but my father who works for the government in one of those everyone is probably getting fired soon but who knows... Anyway I was talking on the phone with him and he said "I'm worried about my job I don't know what I would do .. but I'm glad they are getting rid of all that waste in the government spending"
people would rather be broke, jobless, the opposite of free, and be regarded as stupid--rather than simply admit they made a major life-wrecking mistake
tell your dad that i, for one, hope he enjoys his suffering
It's gobsmacking how brainless the cultists have become.
Did you say, ‘You mean like you?’
That they think the waste is people's jobs and not the billions we pour into corporations is equally frustrating and mind-boggling. I stopped talking to my parents because I just can't handle these kinds of conversations. They reek of dishonesty.