That's what that whole "I'm the smartest guy in the room" schtick is really about. It's a psychological defence mechanism...
In most places, it's a deliberate choice, under the premise that you cannot be the smartest person in the room without the confidence to trust that you are. There's no advantage in being smart if you immediately distrust your own observations in the face of others.
But among this crowd, it's just too low of a bar to not be true.
I did some research so see what Laffer thought. And you didn't actually know much when you first spouted, so after being stung you had to go away and do some research, too. I got my Laffer comments from a news website, and you got yours from a podcast.
No, we both did google searches. Yours got you to a news article that filled you in on like 100 choice words of his surrounded by paragraphs of editorial content telling you how to interpret it, mine got me like an hour of him explaining himself on camera nearly uninterrupted. That's not "getting my news from a podcast", the medium is irrelevant if it's access to the source we are looking for.
So he says explicitly he'd be against the same tariffs if Biden had done them, and predicates it all on this fawning description of Trump as a person. Says he's as great a President as there's ever been.
So, you've found someone who opposes tariffs, but will support anything Trump does, even if diametrically opposed to his own principles. A partisan hack, in short.
No, because you seem to not be getting it into your head I'll say it again,
Laffer is the person who pitched the idea of reciprocal tariffs to Trump in 2016. If you watched that video, he says he wouldn't trust himself with that strategy because he'd cave. He also at one point thanks God for Bill Clinton. It's not partisan hackery, it's statements on the specific individuals.
Too bad there aren't any current events related to this discussion...
Argentina and the United States have reached an expansive trade deal, a win for Argentine President Javier Milei as he moves to open up the South American nation’s notoriously protectionist economy and a reflection of the close alliance between the radical libertarian and U.S.
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