Drafted Into Trump's Economic Suicide Mission

 

I read Pat Dennis's admonition this morning that Democrats are making a tactical blunder with their endless TACO jokes and memes, for you-know-what. Dennis is a well connected progressive activist, and I believe he's totally right:

Trump hasn’t “chickened out” on his tariffs. He is — at this very second — inflicting great harm on American workers, families and the entire U.S. economy. With Trump in charge, prices are up, small businesses are struggling, loan delinquencies are rising, and economic growth has slowed. Polling from Navigator last month showed that only 30 percent of Americans have a favorable view of Trump’s tariffs, including an abysmal 20 percent of independent voters.

...when the Democratic Party yells “TACO,” Americans feel hope that these harmful tariffs are only a negotiation tactic, rather than the economic suicide mission they are. The entire conversation feeds into the decades-old, TV-fueled perception of Trump as a master businessman, just as Democrats are finally gaining traction with a more negative impression [i.e., Donald Jethro Trump is actually terrible at business].