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>Imported item costs $25, US-made costs $100
>People can't justify $100 for the US-made item, buys the $20 instead even knowing it's probably not quite as good, but it's still 'good enough'
>Tariffs make imported item cost $110
>People see $110 on foreign item and $100 on US item
>Now can't afford said item at all
>De-facto poverty increase across the board
>Trump's team: "wtf why is no one buying anything? just take out a loan of a million and buy/build stuff like we rich people with heaps of assets do! Wtf do you mean you don't have a McMansion as collateral!?"
>Promised American manufacturing doesn't return because we don't even make specialized the machines required for a lot of the factories that produce foreign imports, and importing parts is now also too expensive
>Lack the infrastructure to make them ourselves on a large enough scale to meet demand
>Mafias return to power, smuggling stolen computer parts and toyota's
>Everyone starts to hate us, alliances broken
>War materiel exports slow as a result: the very thing which made the US a superpower in the first place
>Only solution is de-regulation of businesses and gutting of federal minimum
>Manufacturing opens finally, but is all sweatshop labor for peanuts no different than dangerous china factories
>Huge natural areas of the US are irreversibly destroyed by mines and pop-up factory towns
>Air becomes polluted
>Quality of goods in general drops due to shit work conditions, poor morale, and rampant crime being the norm.
>Employees and half the police don't even bother to stop theft because they know how shit things are
>Hospitals undermanned/overfilled as a result of degrading quality of life

>Still somehow finding means to send billions to Israel while homelessness, crime, and disease skyrocket

>America is now "great again"

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