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It's almost like he lied to all the gullible dumbshits and they believed him...

No, he didn't. He told everyone he wants to increase taxes on everyone because he hates free trade. He did this in his first term after he spent decades saying it should be done (Trump called for massive tariffs on Japan and opposed NAFTA at the turn of the 90's), was one of the biggest tax increases ever enacted. The man's never lied about this, as JD Vance tweeted, they literally believe mercantilism is legit and that America is too terrible and incompetent to survive capitalism if foreigners are allowed to participate. Stopping free trade has been about the only political stance Trump hasn't ever changed his position on other than his belief that he would be the greatest president ever another position he's held since the 1980's.

Marxists like Trump are endemic in our society, it takes zero time at all to find people who would prefer we're all poorer as long as other people are poorer too. The quickest way to convince people to hurt themselves is tell them that it will hurt someone they've decided to dislike.

Yes, I trust that is all completely true, but he also told them that China and all the foreign countries would be paying the tariffs, not American consumers. As you can see, there's primary evidence in this thread of gullible dumbshits believing that prices wouldn't rise because Trump said so.