Rick Wilson
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Yeah.
They're not, but it was their BS way of trying to make Canada pay a 50% tariff on auto parts.
Which for Americans, just so you all know, it only drove the price of the American-made cars up higher, which made the foreign cars that you hate so much more competitive.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
In Kentucky, you are taking the hit.
Look, China is going to benefit from Canadian โ we talk about rare earths all the time, from Canadian minerals and rare earths and timber and ag products and cattle.
Guess where those cattle aren't going to be sold from, guys?
To China.
That would be the American Midwest.
I mean it โ the problem with the tariff thing that Trump has gotten into his brain โ he probably always had it in his brain โ
and that guys like Peter Navarro and others have sold him, is that tariffs are this like โ
17th, 18th century artifact that doesn't work in the modern world.
We have a global supply chain.
And that global supply chain may be imperfect, and we may not like some of the second-order effects like reduced manufacturing in America, but it's been great for our economy and a lot of our people.
Should we have manufacturing in America?
Of course we should.
But
The idea that tariffs were going to suddenly bring it all over, bring it back here has not held up.
It has not been the truth at all.