Breitbart: MSNBC host Chris Matthews said President Donald Trump is using tariffs to look out for “people that nobody else is looking out for” and argued that tariffs are also very much a “cultural issue” in the Rust Belt.
“This is Pat Buchanan stuff. It’s economic nationalism… It’s the feeling people have that Trump said ‘I’ll be with you.’ This is a cultural issue as much as an economic issue,” Matthews, the Pennsylvania native who always got the interests of working-class voters before he had thoughts of riding MSNBC’s lurch to the left to win the Democratic nomination for Senate in Pennsylvania years ago, informed the Morning Joe elitists Wednesday on MSNBC. “The battle will be won or lost in 2020 in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. It’s not going to be fought in the high-tech areas of California or New York or Massachusetts.”
When Trump signed the steel and aluminum tariffs on Thursday, he specifically mentioned that “workers who poured their souls” into building the country had been betrayed and said he was delivering on his campaign promise to have their backs.
“Our factories were left to rot and to rust, all over the place. Thriving communities turned into ghost towns. You guys know that, right? Not any longer. The workers who poured their souls into building this great nation were betrayed,” Trump said. “But that betrayal is now over. I’m delivering on a promise I made during the campaign and I’ve been making it for a good part of my life.”
The Hardball host also pointed out that while while sophisticates in places like New York talk about things like “terms of trade” and “least comparative disadvantage,” China is going into Africa and doing “anything they want with their tremendous trade advantage in the world.” more here
So Tingles agrees with Trump’s strategy now? Say it ain’t so, Joe!
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Where I grew up as a kid, steel and coal pumped the local economy. Both are gone now, and so is the old local economy.
Just a thought: Many states and cities that have been decimated due to the trade issue and abandonment of the American worker, have become havens for illegal invaders and refugees. Had they been thriving healthy communities, would they have been as willing to grab the government money that comes with welcoming these hordes?
Joe Manchin AND Chris Matthews–did I miss the Rapture??
This spittle spraying buffoon still seems lucid enough to grasp that the American people are behind the presidents actions. He wants to maintain some credibility so faces reality.
My great-great grandparents emigrated from Germany after the Civil War to work in the iron and steel industry. Many generations of my family built their dreams on the sweat of the blast furnaces and to see the shuttered steel mill when I visit my hometown makes me sick. I’m glad they’re not here to witness what those wonderful ethnic neighborhoods have turned into. May God damn Democrat policies.
Looking forward to a series of Matthews/Trump “buddy films”. On the Road to Pyongyang.
The ability to manufacture steel is what leads a country to wealth. People are enamored with finding gold and believe that is true wealth, but gold is largely a medium of exchange. If you manufacture steel, people will give their gold to you.
Trump’s tariffs trouble me somewhat because most of the time, tariffs are bad for the economy. But steel and aluminum are vital for this nation, nations like China are dumping their steel all over the world in order to increase market share, and I think it is not in this country’s best interest to rely on foreign steel. If Trump were proposing to issue tariffs on women’s underwear or Pokeman cards, I would have a problem with this, but not with steel and aluminum.
Mega corporations complain about these tariffs, but I don’t see that they want to promote or protect American steel, and I don’t see where they are offering any alternatives except to increase our reliance on foreign steel. If there are other alternatives to tariffs, I would like to hear them.
Tingles can see the writing on the wall. He wants to be one of the first to hop on the winning team’s bus.
Reply to Wyatt at12:00 pm. My sister explained to me that China has overproduced its’ steel and aluminum smelters in the last 20-30 years and are now dumping their steel wherever they can. They have also hurt Canada’s steel/aluminum industries tremendously. So good on Trump!
What makes most of these democratic dipwads upset is Pres. Trump has the power to do this and Jackasses do not and couldn’t stop it at all.
So is the Trump tingle on the other leg, Chrisie?