🧵3/3 Tarriffs Explainer

Trump applies tarriffs to countries for the same reason a mob boss applies hammers to knees: https://bsky.app/profile/ablueview.bsky.social/post/3lc42izdgwu2e

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This time, it will be critical for Dems to NOT step in & prevent GOP disasters: eg, during the next debt ceiling negotiations Dems should not provide any votes to prevent what the GOP wants to happen, from happening.

Voters must feel & live with their GOP Choice!

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Of course, this is not the first time he's used mob tactics to try to get his way.

He similarly threatened Zelensky (Impeachment 1), and regularly threatened NATO (funding) & Dems (fiscal cliff negotiations) with mixed results.

During a grueling primary, #Trump has told advisers that he wants to make sure #DeSantis is not the #GOP presidential nominee in #2028 & that he wants to make his #2024 loss painful, people who heard his comments said. He has floated attacking lesser-known senators for not immediately endorsing him, acc/to people who have spoken to Trump.

#OnTyranny #Tyrant #democracy #MAGA #Republicans #TrumpIsAMobBoss

Some allies have kept #lists of #Republicans who have been critical of #Trump in a bid to block them from getting jobs in a second term, acc/to a person w/knowledge of the #list. “You have a lot of people who want to come back in, but we remember what people have said in the past,” one longtime Trump ally said.

#OnTyranny #Tyrant #democracy #MAGA #Republicans #TrumpIsAMobBoss