Josh Barro

Steve Myron is gay, too. Is he? Yeah, it's this little gay mafia, like, implementing the worst economic policy of the last 90 years in the United States. It's not great for respectability politics. I get that. But I just think it's important for us to assert that we are all individuals. The fact that some gay individuals are doing something stupid is not our fault or our responsibility.

Yeah, I mean, I think people need to remember that there's a difference between policies that poll well if you ask people about them and policies that will poll well if you actually implement them. I think that there's been a lot of broad sort of free-floating discontent about NAFTA and the global economic system. And people talk about tariffs as something that's supposed to protect the U.S.

Yeah, I mean, I think people need to remember that there's a difference between policies that poll well if you ask people about them and policies that will poll well if you actually implement them. I think that there's been a lot of broad sort of free-floating discontent about NAFTA and the global economic system. And people talk about tariffs as something that's supposed to protect the U.S.

Yeah, I mean, I think people need to remember that there's a difference between policies that poll well if you ask people about them and policies that will poll well if you actually implement them. I think that there's been a lot of broad sort of free-floating discontent about NAFTA and the global economic system. And people talk about tariffs as something that's supposed to protect the U.S.

And that's a message that some voters find appealing. But now we're seeing tariffs actually get implemented and they're already unpopular. They're especially unpopular with Democrats. And they're going to be even more unpopular in six months as the damage gets visited on the economy. And I think that's because tariffs are a bad idea.

And that's a message that some voters find appealing. But now we're seeing tariffs actually get implemented and they're already unpopular. They're especially unpopular with Democrats. And they're going to be even more unpopular in six months as the damage gets visited on the economy. And I think that's because tariffs are a bad idea.

And that's a message that some voters find appealing. But now we're seeing tariffs actually get implemented and they're already unpopular. They're especially unpopular with Democrats. And they're going to be even more unpopular in six months as the damage gets visited on the economy. And I think that's because tariffs are a bad idea.

Once you implement them and people see what they do, it's going to be a toxic policy idea. And so I think for certain reasons of populist messaging and for misunderstandings of economics, some Democrats have gotten relatively hostile to free trade over the last 15 years and have gotten some political mileage talking about trade restrictions being good.

Once you implement them and people see what they do, it's going to be a toxic policy idea. And so I think for certain reasons of populist messaging and for misunderstandings of economics, some Democrats have gotten relatively hostile to free trade over the last 15 years and have gotten some political mileage talking about trade restrictions being good.

Once you implement them and people see what they do, it's going to be a toxic policy idea. And so I think for certain reasons of populist messaging and for misunderstandings of economics, some Democrats have gotten relatively hostile to free trade over the last 15 years and have gotten some political mileage talking about trade restrictions being good.

I think that's just out of date as a political matter. It was always wrong as an economic matter. And now what you're seeing is the vast majority of Democrats say tariffs are bad. I don't like tariffs. And so there's no reason for Democrats to be hedging on this issue.

I think that's just out of date as a political matter. It was always wrong as an economic matter. And now what you're seeing is the vast majority of Democrats say tariffs are bad. I don't like tariffs. And so there's no reason for Democrats to be hedging on this issue.

I think that's just out of date as a political matter. It was always wrong as an economic matter. And now what you're seeing is the vast majority of Democrats say tariffs are bad. I don't like tariffs. And so there's no reason for Democrats to be hedging on this issue.

What they should say is Donald Trump is making you poorer and imposing a tax on you and cutting us off from the global economic system that has been, you know, very important for upholding the U.S. economy. And we need to put that back together. So not only should we oppose Trump's tariffs, we should oppose tariffs generally.

What they should say is Donald Trump is making you poorer and imposing a tax on you and cutting us off from the global economic system that has been, you know, very important for upholding the U.S. economy. And we need to put that back together. So not only should we oppose Trump's tariffs, we should oppose tariffs generally.

What they should say is Donald Trump is making you poorer and imposing a tax on you and cutting us off from the global economic system that has been, you know, very important for upholding the U.S. economy. And we need to put that back together. So not only should we oppose Trump's tariffs, we should oppose tariffs generally.

We should seek to rebuild our global economic alliances by entering into binding free trade agreements. I mean, you know, the— We were supposed to have a trade policy that was built around isolating China because China is hostile for non-economic reasons.

We should seek to rebuild our global economic alliances by entering into binding free trade agreements. I mean, you know, the— We were supposed to have a trade policy that was built around isolating China because China is hostile for non-economic reasons.

We should seek to rebuild our global economic alliances by entering into binding free trade agreements. I mean, you know, the— We were supposed to have a trade policy that was built around isolating China because China is hostile for non-economic reasons.

And so if you were going to do that, you needed to have friendly trade relations with Japan and Vietnam and all these countries that Trump is giving the middle finger to. The way you could put that back together is you could have a free trade agreement that's built around isolating China. That's something that the Obama administration was negotiating. That was the Trans-Pacific Partnership.