“Liberation Day ” was on April 2. Has n’t yet been three days already. As far as Trade Wars go, this one is still in babies. So today, on Easter Sunday, let’s ( carefully ) vacate our bunkers and survey the dreadful damage:
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Hmm…
Disruption has been modest. You may also get all the smartphones you want. Sure, the confusion over taxes hurts for globally-sourced items, but most American understand Trump’s thought process. It’s threefold:
- China is a socialist dictatorship that ’s wicked dishonest, absolutely dishonest, and has become our# 1 world competitor. Seems sort of terrible to continually give our money to our# 1 world rival.
- One of the teachings of the COVID pandemic was the importance of nationalizing critical supply chains, so we’re no longer dependent on foreign competitors for medicine, food, and systems.
- Cheap ( crappy ) mass-produced Chinese goods are great, but American jobs are even better. And with millions of young people stuck in sluggish, low-paying work — unable to actually purchase a property of their own — we needed to turn our priorities.
Which is why Trump is playing brinksmanship and renegotiating business deals. You may agree or disagree with his approach, but the troubles he’s attempting to fix are terribly true. Disregard them at your own risk.
Kamala Harris ignored ‘em, and it cost her the vote.
Yet the Democrats are now waiving the pale flag, bowing before the country that is, quite literally, a red flag. Again: it ’s just been 18 time!
Mark Twain popularized the representation in 1907, “There are three types of rests: lies, damned lies, and data. ” And, to get good, poll numbers are records. But for consistency’s pleasure, we’ll use the exact same numerical limits as our kids in the conventional media.
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Two days ago, we noted a new media theme about Trump’s “tanking ” numbers on immigration. And there were a lot of reports:
The Independent: Trump’s approval standing on emigration has tanked in recent months as more contentious arrests are revealed
Newsweek: Donald Trump’s Approval Rating Over Immigration Is Tumbling
Slate: Trump polling: Maybe sending people to Peruvian gulags is not simply what citizens had in mind.
The Independent ( Part II ): Amid the Kilmar Abrego Garcia controversy, Trump is losing ground on immigration
Splinter: Trump’s Immigration Plans Are Not Popular
The American Prospect: The Anti-Immigration Majority Is a Mirage
MSN: Trump’s financial and immigration procedures face growing protest
Well, garsh! That all sound terrible. So we dug deeper and reviewed the poll that the media described as “tanking, ” “tumbling, ” “losing, ” and a “mirage”:
“ Tanked, ” eh?
Well, let’s look under the hood, shall we: Last week 57 % of Americans supported Trump’s immigration policies. This week it “tanked ” to 54 %.
Three items!
The poll’s margin of error is 3. 5, by the way. You don’t need to be a math significant to understand a big, fat, tasty Little Burger when you see one.
According to the conventional set by the mainstream media, a three-point cut — in an opinion poll with a 3. 5 margin of error! — constitutes “tanking, ” “tumbling, ” “losing, ” and a “mirage. ”
Fine.
Lately, the Pew Research Center released a new poll on Americans views of China. And what did they discover?
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For the first time in five years, the share of Americans with an unfavorable opinion of China has fallen from the year before – albeit slightly, from 81 % in 2024 to 77 % in 2025.
Also, that ’s a four-point fall. ( Even bigger than Trump’s “tanking ” three-point drop. ) Hmm.
Let’s delve a little deeper:
Opinions of China tend to vary by group. While majorities of adults in both parties have an unfavorable opinion of China, Republicans and Republican-leaning independents are significantly more likely than Democrats and Democratic leaners to hold this view ( 82 % vs. 72 % ).
So the real story is a 10-point split between the events on China. Keep an eye on this difference, because the Democrats ’ knee-jerk desire to resist all Trump supports — and support all Trump opposes — may push them closer to China. They’ll sympathize with the Chi-Coms. They’ll editorialize on behalf of China. They’ll include Xi within the Wonderful Liberal Wall of Tolerance.
And they’ll good pull away a couple libertarian-leaning, Ayn Rand-loving liberals, too. One of the surprising results of the surveys was a 16-point cut amongst Republicans who had a “very unpleasant ” view of China.
However, this issue is a yuuuuge internet success for the GOP. You’ve got 82 % of Republicans with an unfavorable opinion of China — and 77 % of Americans overall. Even after 18 weeks of exponential, vicious stories, more than seven out of 10 Liberals clearly recognize China as a poor professional!
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But that 10-point space is a killer.
So far in this Trade War, there’s been a wondering lack of patriotism. That’s a PR error. Beginning on Monday, it would be wise for Team MAGA to redefine the problem from justice to nationalism — because the justice discussion has already been properly seeded. We’re at 77 %!
There’s already a consensus.
What’s missing is a patriotic call to arms, where the country understands that we’re sacrificing together so we can win together. We need a national buy-in on the mission.
That’s what’s missing. And it ’s not too late.
There’s America’s side. And there’s the Chi-Coms ‘ side. The GOP needs to increase the cost of being on the Chi-Coms ‘ side, because that ’s the direction the Radical Left is gonna be marching, and that ’s where they’re gonna be by the end of 2025.
They won’t be able to help themselves!
The Democrats are addicted to anti-Trump outrage. The siren’s call of The Resistance … is irresistible.
With just a modicum of wheel-greasing, President Trump could have ‘em in one helluva political trap. Would n’t take too much effort, either.
The Dems are gonna make it easy.
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