Trade wars are a really bad idea.

I see that brooklynite started a thread about Trump starting trade wars, and the Bernie people here's response is "yay trade wars!" No.

What Trump is talking about is violating agreements that the US has signed. That's a bad idea. Global economic turmoil might sound like fun, but it's not. And loss of credibility of the US holding up agreements would cause that. And Trump doesn't care, a few weeks ago he threatened to default on the debt, like US government bonds are like some money he borrowed to build a casino and he can get away from by screwing creditors. This stuff is not a joke, a US default would be catastrophic.

Never mind that's it's also economically stupid. Take China out of the supply chain, watch havoc be wreaked.

What Trump wants is dictatorial power of the economy. He wants to personally slap tariffs on individual businesses to throw his ego around. That's very bad. And don't pretend he has the American worker in mind. Look at his own business record if you believe that.

Trump is corrupt and fascist. He will do nothing to help wages. He will violate international law to help people who back him politically. He's not a friend of working people.