Republicans panic over Trump tariffs: Last time "we lost the House and Senate for 60 years"

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Last time "we lost the House and the Senate for 60 years"

 

"When [President William McKinley], most famously, put tariffs on in 1890, they lost 50% of their seats in the next election,” Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., told reporters. “When Smoot and Hawley put on their tariff in the early 1930s, we lost the House and the Senate for 60 years. So they’re not only bad economically, they’re bad politically.”

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You can't always get what you want.

A pro-MAGA outlet, The Quartering, spelt it out for its followers the day after Trump's sweeping new tariffs were announced.

“You do NOT need the new iPad. You do NOT need the new Cell Phone. You do NOT need the new video game console.

You WANT them. There is a big difference and if you look at the people whining about the tariffs, I challenge you to ask them how their lives have been affected in any way.”

The Quartering had previously boasted that Trump’s new administration would usher in a “golden age” in America.

Critics soon pounced:

“Broke: America’s economy enters a golden age on Jan. 20 woke: you losers don’t need things,” Civil rights lawyer Joshua Erlich wrote on Bluesky.

“Wasn’t WANTING the new iPad, Cell Phone, & video game console the whole reason you voted for Trump in the first case?” essayist and writer Sami Gold pointed out to his followers on X.

'Life comes at you fast': Pro-Trump outlet mocked as it flips on 'golden age' outlook