Comment by kristjansson

16 days ago

He's got the entire congress! He's got the entire universe of industrial policy to advance whatever domestic improvements he wants to pursue. Clearly they even have the political capital and appetite to do a massive tax increase!

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cryptonector  16 days ago

The Republicans in Congress don't all want the same things, and they have very narrow majorities, so yes, he does have to negotiate with them.

  • rat87  16 days ago

    Actually doing positive things is hard. Good presidents like Biden can pass stuff like IRA.

    Wrecking shit when you don't care much about who suffers is much easier

    • cryptonector  16 days ago

      The tone of discourse on HN has gotten quite negative lately. It can be possible for Trump to believe that what he's doing is good even if what he's doing proves bad. He seems sincere in thinking that yesterday's tariffs will do good for the U.S. Who knows, tariffs might yet do good (or not), and Democrats used to advocate roughly the same thing:

        - Bernie, 2008: https://x.com/mazemoore/status/1907883583228051964
  - Nancy Pelosi, 1996: https://x.com/ThomasSowell/status/1907875133638705646
  - Roger Moore's films

      Clearly they changed their minds. It would be interesting to see why they changed their minds.

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