Binyamin Appelbaum
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first heard Feb 2026
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I agree with that.
I think that some of the question here, you know, is less about the theory than about, you know, the functional results.
In other words, Congress gets madder about tariffs.
The more pain tariffs are inflicting on the domestic economy, the less evidence there is that they're serving the goals President Trump has described to revive American manufacturing, to rebuild the American economy.
Those things aren't happening.
The polls show that voters are increasingly unhappy about tariffs.
There's no evidence of a manufacturing revival to the contrary, except in the very limited space around the build out of AI.
And so you've got this sort of reality in which, you know, a lot of congressional Republicans are looking around and saying, hey, I'm up for reelection, you know, not that many months from now.
Americans are unhappy about the economy.
They think tariffs are part of the problem, driving up the cost of living.
You could see, I think, an intensification of resistance to tariffs, which are fundamentally tax increases.
Republicans have been very successful for a very long time opposing tax increases.
It's been kind of amazing to watch them fall under the spell of this idea that this kind of tax increase should be the great exception.
Not that hard for me to imagine them waking up and saying, hey, wait a second, we're against tax increases.
It for sure it is.
And, you know, betting against him has not been a good bet for a while now, but he is going to be a lame duck.
He is going to be facing the potential of a change of control in either House or Congress, you know, in the in the midterms.
I don't know.
I'm not predicting that it's going to happen, but you can at least see some of the pressures building against his ability to continue sort of imposing tariffs unilaterally and without any pushback from Congress.
I think it is sort of a fascinating test of like his, you know, ability to sort of do whatever he wants versus what his advisors clearly want him to do.
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