RE: Will Trump Win the Tarriffs War?

It looks like my comment prompted some more engagement with your readers, on your post!

Haha, it sure does!

Dividing us by whatever works versus uniting us around common objectives.

Yep! It's always easier to control people when they are divided and to turn them against each other instead of against you.

How would you characterize the claims of so much of what the administration he replaced had to say? About pretty much any topic you would care to mention?

I didn't follow what Biden was doing as much. I certainly thought he was unfit for the position toward the end. I certainly didn't like the woke movement and the non merit-based job structures. Trump may be partially right about immigration, but I can't trust Trump to say the truth either, and I'm too far to know what's really going on. I know he surely exaggerates on some aspects, because not all delinquents came to the US. He conveniently forgets about the ones that are a "net positive". After all, Elon Musk is an "imported good". So was Albert Einstein and many others. I'm sure a few came in the last 4 years. Maybe not as prominent yet, but time will tell. By the way, how many of the gold-diggers back in the day were upstanding citizens?

Trump maybe would have taken better economic decisions (for the US, not necessarily the world), but we see now at what costs...

The sad reality is people are far less inclined to have open and honest dialog about any topic today than was the case in my younger years. It was most certainly not perfect then, but it is indisputably worse today.

Yes, now it's difficult to have a dialogue. The radicalization has reached very high levels.

The various political leaders we are all presented with as our "savior" do not help this, but since people are so easily swayed, I guess the argument is made that is what the people want.

I despise this mindset personally.

I hate that we turned on this route, too. You rarely have two viable options to choose from.

In sharp contrast to the administration he handily defeated, who had done all in their considerable power to destroy him and anyone willing to be publicly associated with him.

Ah, that's another thing they did horribly. But that turned him into a victim and a sure winner. Probably they thought they would break him and he won't run for the 2nd term. Bad judgement call with Trump!